CAAC has announced that the 2008 Summer-Autumn flight schedule will be implemented in China between March 30 and October 25.

According to the schedule, there will be an additional 41 routes this year, including 14 domestic and 27 international routes. New routes that domestic airlines have actually arranged and those in the pipeline include from Yulin, Jinzhou, Nanchong, Tongren, Tongliao, and Jiujiang, to Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai£¬Kunming, Xi'an, and Dalian; a new destination country is Algeria and new international flight destinations include Algeria and Seattle.

This season, a total of 23 airlines are involved in the passenger transportation plan for 30,245 weekly flights on domestic routes. Domestic airlines will operate 3,223 weekly flights on international routes connecting to 48 countries and 106 cities; and there will be 1,190 weekly flights between 36 cities in mainland China and Hong Kong or Macau.

CAAC will continue to control the gross number of daily flights in ten major busy airports such as Beijing Capital International Airport and Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, and manage the routes and flights approval of these airports. More than 130 airports are allowed to open new routes or to increase the flight frequency according to requirements and only need to report to CAAC for record.