China’s homegrown C919 aircraft to serve first international route
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
China’s domestically developed large passenger aircraft, the C919, will begin its international service on Aug. 12, Air China has announced.
The route operated by Air China will connect Beijing and Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, with one round-trip flight per day.
The outbound flight departs from Beijing Capital International Airport at 3:00 p.m. and arrives in Ulaanbaatar at 5:15 p.m. The return flight leaves Ulaanbaatar at 6:30 p.m. and lands in Beijing at 8:35 p.m.
Tickets are now available.
Reference Link:- https://english.news.cn/20260718/33846da78d5b4cbfbbfefce009635160/c.html
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
