{"id":54760,"date":"2018-08-30T22:01:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T19:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/novosti\/iz-pylkovo-otkroutsia-novye-priamye-reisy-v-kitai.html"},"modified":"2018-08-30T22:01:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T19:01:19","slug":"iz-pylkovo-otkroutsia-novye-priamye-reisy-v-kitai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/novosti\/iz-pylkovo-otkroutsia-novye-priamye-reisy-v-kitai","title":{"rendered":"New direct flights to China will open from Pulkovo Airport."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong>IrAero Airlines plans to launch direct scheduled flights from Pulkovo Airport to China starting in October 2018. These flights will be operated on comfortable Boeing 777-200 aircraft with a two-class configuration to Hangzhou and the cities of Sanya and Haikou on Hainan Island.<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ef7b15a6d84706fc5afb170d4435da7c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;The China route is set to grow\u2014there&#039;s mutual interest from both our and Chinese tourists. Starting in late October of this year, we plan to launch a regular flight program from St. Petersburg to three destinations in China: Sanya, Haikou, and Hangzhou. By the end of the year, flights will operate one to two times per week. Starting in 2019, we plan to operate two times per week,&quot; said Dmitry Kukanov, First Deputy General Director for Operations at IrAero Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;We welcome IrAero&#039;s decision to expand its route network from St. Petersburg. China is one of Pulkovo Airport&#039;s fastest-growing destinations. I am confident that the new direct flights to Hainan and Hangzhou will be in demand among both tourists and business travelers,&quot; noted Evgeny Ilyin, Commercial Director of Pulkovo Airport&#039;s managing company, Northern Capital Gateway (NCG).<\/p>\n<p>\nIrAero also operates daily flights from St. Petersburg to Moscow, and on Mondays and Thursdays to Irkutsk with a convenient connection in Barnaul.<\/p>\n<p>\nPulkovo Airport&#039;s management company is actively developing flights from St. Petersburg to China. Direct scheduled flights from St. Petersburg are available to Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Xi&#039;an, Urumqi, Nanjing, Wuhan, and Shenzhen, as well as charter flights to Guangzhou and Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn December 2016, Pulkovo became the first Russian airport to receive the Welcome Chinese certificate from the China Academy of Tourism.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trn-news.ru\/news\/80363\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trn-news.ru<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IrAero Airlines plans to launch direct scheduled flights from Pulkovo Airport to China starting in October 2018. The flights will be operated on comfortable, two-class aircraft.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}