{"id":33539,"date":"2006-06-19T08:24:17","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T00:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2006\/06\/19\/air-canada-starts-new-non-stop-toronto-shanghai-flights\/"},"modified":"2006-06-19T08:24:17","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T00:24:17","slug":"air-canada-starts-new-non-stop-toronto-shanghai-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2006\/06\/19\/33539\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Canada Starts New Non-Stop Toronto-Shanghai Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air Canada has begun new non-stop service between Toronto and Shanghai.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\"This new route directly connects the dynamic cities of Shanghai and Toronto, further enhancing Air Canada's already extensive service to China and Asia,\" said Ben Smith, vice-president of network planning at Air Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The new three-times weekly service is the only non-stop flight from eastern North America to Shanghai and offers the fastest flying time from Toronto. With an elapsed time of 14 hours, 45 minutes westbound and 13 hours, 40 minutes eastbound, the route will save travellers three hours in each direction compared to the Vancouver routing. The flight will be operated using a 285-seat, A340-300 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Flights will depart Toronto at 2:40 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and flight AC 088 will return from Shanghai and arrive in Toronto at 8:35 p.m. Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>With the addition of this service Air Canada now flies 13 routes to eight major Asian cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Canada has begun new non-stop service between Toronto and Shanghai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33539","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=33539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}