Published on : Friday, June 21, 2019
The flight took off at 9:30 a.m. from Guangzhou, arrived in Urumqi at 2:40 p.m. for a 90-minute layover and landed in Vienna at 5:30 p.m. local time. The return flight will leave Vienna at 6:55 p.m. local time, arrive in Urumqi at 7:55 a.m. the next day and get into Guangzhou at 2:35 p.m. local time.
The flight is operated by China Southern Airlines. It will fly every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, shortening the travel time between north-western China and Austria to about only seven hours.
Austria has become a popular tourist destination for Chinese tourists. The number of Chinese tourists visiting Austria went up to 970,000 last year, according to Gabriele GIL-FEIGL, Charge d’affaires of the Austrian Embassy in China. Currently, Urumqi has launched international flights to 20 cities of 13 countries.