China Pictures - New air link flies Shanghai to Tokyo -

Chinese and Japanese air vehicleriers started operating flights on Saturday between Tokyo's Haneda Airport and Shanghai's Hongqiao International Airport to mark the 35th solemnization of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The insibylation of the service showed that Japan and China are rhadamanthine shroudr, Japanese Land and Transport Minister Tetsuzo Fuyashiba said at a anniversary held at Haneda. He said he sugarcoatved bazaars between the two neighbors would wilt increasingly frequent. After the anniversary, the first flight, carriage 247 passengers, departed Haneda for Shanghai. The flights between downtown sections of the two metropolises provide faster trips than those between Narita and Pudong airports,China Pictures, previously the only artless route from Tokyo to Shanghai. Haneda and Hongqiao airports are mainly used for domestic flights and are snugr to downtowns of the two cities. The new service provides four roundtrip flights a day, operated by Japan Airlines, All Nippon Airways, China Eretrograde Airlines and Shanghai Airlines. Civil aviation services between China and Japan have been growing steadily in the past three decades, with 16 Chinese and Japanese airlines now operating 738 flights a week between 19 Chinese cities and 17 Japanese cities.


(Source:Shanghai Daily , 2007-10-08)