{"id":599,"date":"2024-01-15T08:59:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T00:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/?p=599"},"modified":"2024-01-15T08:59:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T00:59:40","slug":"air-route-aims-to-boost-hainan-free-port-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/air-route-aims-to-boost-hainan-free-port-status.html","title":{"rendered":"Air route aims to boost Hainan free port status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the take-off of flight MU551 from South China&#8217;s Sanya Phoenix International Airport to London Heathrow at 08:39 am on Friday, China Eastern Airlines became the first Chinese airliner to launch a regular passenger flight from Sanya in Hainan province to Europe since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Shanghai-based carrier.<\/p>\n<p>By offering convenient and efficient international air traffic network, the flight is tapping into Hainan&#8217;s development into a free trade port.<\/p>\n<p>The regular flight between Sanya and London, via Shanghai, will be operated once a week, according to China Eastern.<\/p>\n<p>Since opening its Hainan branch in Sept 2021, China Eastern is committed to building a silk road in the air, connecting the world for the Hainan free trade port. The carrier is currently operating 587 flights to or from Hainan per week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the take-off of flig<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}