{"id":34633,"date":"2005-07-19T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-19T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2005\/07\/19\/spring-airlines-chinese-airline-aims-high\/"},"modified":"2005-07-19T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-19T15:13:00","slug":"spring-airlines-chinese-airline-aims-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2005\/07\/19\/34633\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Airlines: Chinese Airline Aims High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"60\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/images\/springairlines_logo_120x60.gif\" width=\"120\" align=\"right\">Private Chinese budget airline Spring Airlines launched its maiden flight yesterday. Spring is one of many new private airlines entering the Chinese market following the launch of China's first private airline Okay Airways in March.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Spring will concentrate on niche travel routes for tourists and business travelers. Current cities include Shanghai, Yantai, Nanchang, Guilin, and Mianyang.<\/p>\n<p>One of the airline's three Airbus A320 jets departed from its base at Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport on Monday morning with 180 passengers on board, arriving about one hour later in the eastern coastal city of Yantai.<\/p>\n<p>To keep operating costs low, Spring sells tickets exclusively from its Web site and offers only bottled water on its flights instead of meals. Ticket prices drop closer to departure times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private Chinese budget airline Spring Airlines launched its maiden flight yesterday. Spring is one of many new private airlines entering the Chinese market following the launch of China's first private airline Okay Airways in March.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-34633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34633","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=34633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}