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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Beijing, December 19 (Xinhua) — On Thursday night, the first flight of the Russian airline IrAero from Blagoveshchensk arrived at Daxing International Airport in southern Beijing. This marks the beginning of IrAero's service to Beijing Daxing Airport, opening a direct Beijing-Blagoveshchensk route. This brings the number of Chinese and foreign airlines operating flights to Daxing Airport to 71.
The Zhongguo Xinwenshe news agency website reports that flights on the new route will operate once a week, on Thursdays. The aircraft will land at Daxing Airport at 1:00 AM Beijing Time and depart from Beijing at 2:00 AM. The flights will be operated on Superjet 100 passenger aircraft.
The opening of this air route has established regular direct air service between these two cities. This is the first direct air service between the Chinese capital and Blagoveshchensk.
Blagoveshchensk, the capital of Russia's Amur Oblast, and its neighboring city of Heihe in Heilongjiang Province, separated only by the Heilongjiang River (Amur), are known as the "twin cities of Russia and China."
Daxing Airport currently ranks first in China in terms of both the number of scheduled gateways and the number of scheduled flights to Russia. Several airlines currently operate flights to nine Russian cities from this airport, including Moscow and Vladivostok. The opening of this new route, coupled with the introduction of a mutual visa-free regime between China and Russia, is expected to further enhance convenience for business, professional, and tourist travel between the two cities.
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