Southwest Airlines Wednesday formally announced that from July 28th on, Chengdu citizens could directly fly to Europe by airplane.

According to news from Air China, it has developed the flight CA933/4 Beijing-Paris-Beijing to Chengdu, which making the flight more convenient by omitting transference in Tokyo or Beijing.

It is learned that as per the plan, the initial schedule of the air route will be twice every week.

Flight CA933 will leave Chengdu in every Wednesday and Sunday morning for Paris by over 12-hour flying, which saved more time of passengers.

(CNTA June 16, 2004)