{"id":17682,"date":"2010-09-17T05:30:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T21:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/en\/?p=17682"},"modified":"2010-09-17T05:30:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T21:30:41","slug":"asiana-airlines-to-launch-chinese-only-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2010\/09\/17\/17682\/","title":{"rendered":"Asiana Airlines To Launch Chinese-Only Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Chinese media, Asiana Airlines Inc, one of South Korea's two major airlines, will soon start operating an Airbus A320 aircraft purely for Chinese passengers.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Flights have been allocated the numbers 8989\/8988 as the number eight means fortune in China. Starting from October 1, 2010 the flight will be operated four times per week: on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier plans to operate the service on a daily basis at a later date so that Chinese passengers can take an express route to Cheju.<\/p>\n<p>In August, the average load factor of the South Korean carrier's China flights(excluding Hong Kong) hit a record 83.6%, which is attributed to South Korea's new visa policies for Chinese visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the high load factor, the company said it expects to carry 24,000 Chinese passengers on by the end of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Chinese media, Asiana Airlines Inc, one of South Korea's two major airlines, will soon start operating an Airbus A320 aircraft purely for Chinese passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[3665,12911,14129,15292,13255,12784],"class_list":["post-17682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-a320","tag-airbus","tag-asiana-airlines","tag-cheju","tag-south-korea","tag-visa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}