New Flight Route to Open Between Nagoya, Northeast China

Sep. 2–CHANGCHUN — China Southern Airlines will open a route this month between Nagoya in Japan and Changchun, a northeastern China industrial city known for a Sino-Japanese automotive joint venture, a local newspaper reported Thursday.

The state-owned airline will fly between the two cities every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for an introductory round-trip price of 2,730 yuan ($336.6), the City Evening News of Changchun said. The airline will begin flights Sept. 16.

The new route should help cooperation between Toyota Motor Corp. and China FAW Group Corp., also known as First Auto Works, a company based in Changchun, the paper said.

“The main purpose is opening a special route to assist First Auto Works-Toyota’s cooperation,” the City Evening News said, citing a China Southern Airlines press conference Wednesday.

China Southern Airlines now runs one flight per week from Changchun to Tokyo and two per week to Sendai in northern Japan.

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