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Jun 01, 2016 (newstodate): Hopes are dwindling for Beijing Capital Airlines to resume flights to Copenhagen again this summer.
Plans announced after the carrier's first season with flights to Copenhagen from Beijing and Hangzhou for resumption of services in summer 2016 with an extended flights program now seem to have run against the wall of Chinese bureaucracy, forcing the carrier to reconsider.
The carrier performed its first flight on September 3, 2015, and since then Beijing Capital Airlines offered one weekly flight with Airbus A330-200 aircraft from Hangzhou and Beijing, respectively, to Copenhagen carrying Chinese tourists on package tours sold only by the Chinese tour operator Caissa Touristic.
The flights to Copenhagen were the first international services by China Capital Airlines, a member of the HNA Group, but since then operations have been launched also to other European destinations including Madrid.
Beijing Capital Airlines is also expected to start flights to Helsinki, in Finland, from May 2017 with two weekly rotations using Airbus A330-200 aircraft.
Despite the Chinese-speaking fluency of newstodate, no direct telephone contact with Beijing Capital Airlines has been obtained.
Plans announced after the carrier's first season with flights to Copenhagen from Beijing and Hangzhou for resumption of services in summer 2016 with an extended flights program now seem to have run against the wall of Chinese bureaucracy, forcing the carrier to reconsider.
The carrier performed its first flight on September 3, 2015, and since then Beijing Capital Airlines offered one weekly flight with Airbus A330-200 aircraft from Hangzhou and Beijing, respectively, to Copenhagen carrying Chinese tourists on package tours sold only by the Chinese tour operator Caissa Touristic.
The flights to Copenhagen were the first international services by China Capital Airlines, a member of the HNA Group, but since then operations have been launched also to other European destinations including Madrid.
Beijing Capital Airlines is also expected to start flights to Helsinki, in Finland, from May 2017 with two weekly rotations using Airbus A330-200 aircraft.
Despite the Chinese-speaking fluency of newstodate, no direct telephone contact with Beijing Capital Airlines has been obtained.