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Paul Kehoe, CEO of Birmingham Airport, talks about the start of the Hainan Airlines flights from Beijing

Paul Kehoe, CEO of Birmingham Airport, talks about the start of the Hainan Airlines charter flights
from Beijing and the growth of new services that the airport is experiencing in the current year

Paul Kehoe, CEO of Birmingham Airport, (right) with Gordon Stretch and Derek Pedley

Friday 3 July 2015

Hainan Airlines operate first Boeing 767 charter flight from Beijing to Birmingham on Friday 3 July 2015

Hainan Airlines will be operating the first of a series of Boeing 767-300 charter

flights from Beijing to Birmingham Airport on Friday 3 July 2015

  

The flights will arrive at 0800 and then depart back to Beijing at 1000 and will

be operating twice weekly on Monday and Friday until 28 August 2015

  

This series of flights is a joint initiative between Birmingham Airport, Hainan

Airlines and Caissa Travel Management - both members of the HNA Group -

and are expected to carry over 4,000 Chinese tourists into the UK on package tours 

  

Hainan Airlines will operate the flight using a Boeing 767-300 aircraft with

233 seats - 34 in Business Class and 199 in Economy Class 

  

These services follow the success of a short series of flights operated

by China Southern Airlines in 2014  

  
Hainan Airlines Summer 2015 schedule to Birmingham Airport
 
0800/1000 HU7949/7950 763 from/to Beijing
- flight operate on Monday and Friday from 3 July to 28 August 2015

Schedule/timings subject to change

Thursday 2 July 2015

Hainan Airlines to operate an expanded programme of charter flights from Beijing to Birmingham in 2015

Hainan Airlines will be operating and expanded programme of Boeing 767-300

charter flights from Beijing to Birmingham Airport this summer following the

success of the short series on flights operated in July and August 2014
  

The joint initiative between Birmingham Airport, Hainan Airlines and Caissa Travel

Management - both members of the HNA Group -  continues to demonstrate the

enormous demand for more flights between the two countries

The UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP,

today Tuesday 3 March 2015 welcomed news that Birmingham Airport will host

a programme of charter flights from Beijing this summer, carrying almost four 

thousand Chinese tourists into the UK on package tours and contributing

£19 million to the regional economy

The Secretary of State was speaking at a special event hosted by Birmingham

Airport and Visit Britain at The GREAT Festival in Shanghai.  The event was also

attended by President Chen Xiaobing of Caissa Touristic and Vice President

Hou Wei of Hainan Airlines as well as senior representatives from Birmingham’s

business community, media and HNA Group

The GREAT Festival in Shanghai is being led by the Duke of Cambridge Prince

William, Trade Minister Lord Livingston and the Culture Secretary

Hainan Airlines will operate twice weekly flights on a Boeing 767-300 aircraft,

with 233 seats – 34 in the business cabin and 199 in economy. The flights will

operate from Beijing to Birmingham each Friday and Monday, starting on

Friday 3rd July 2015 and ending on the Monday 31st August 2015

Birmingham Airport also unveiled its new Chinese branding – "Birmingham  Airport,

Shakespeare’s Airport" at the event. It will be used in China to promote Birmingham

as a gateway into the region which is home to many great places of interest to

Chinese visitors, such as Stratford upon Avon, the home of Shakespeare

  

Direct flights to China from Birmingham have been made possible thanks to an 

investment by Birmingham Airport to extend its runway to enable longer haul 

flights. The development was opened in April 2014 by the Prime Minister and 

was inaugurated by the first Birmingham-Beijing charter service operated by

China Southern Airlines in July 2014

  

Hainan Airlines Summer 2015 schedule to Birmingham Airport

Flights arrive from Beijing at 0800 and depart at 0930 on
Monday and Friday between 3 July and 31 August 2015

Flight will be operated by a 233 seat Boeing 767-300

All times local - Schedule/timings subject to change

Tuesday 3 March 2015