Air China is upping the ante on Milan Malpensa which, from 28 November next, will be connected with a new direct flight to Wenzhou, a port and industrial city in the eastern province of Zhejiang.
The route will be served once a week with Airbus A330-300 aircraft. The new service is in addition to the other two Air China routes already operated between Italy and China: Milan-Beijing (one flight a week) and Rome Fiumicino-Hangzhou (two flights a week).Hangzhou-Rome flights have been reinstated
Beijing-Milan currently operates non-stop on the outward flight to the Lombardy capital and via Shenyang on the return, while Hangzhou-Rome is non-stop in both directions and was reinstated last October after being suspended from February 2020 due to the pandemic.
Air China operates on 11 European destinations
The launch of the Wenzhou-Milan route comes as Air China has resumed flying between Chongqing and Budapest, with weekly flights on Fridays operated by A330-300s, after the return of Beijing-Budapest last July. As of today the Chinese carrier therefore serves 11 destinations in Europe, most of them only once a week due to the strict Chinese travel restrictions still in place.
Milan Malpensa has flights to four Chinese cities
For Milan Malpensa, the route to Wenzhou brings to four the destinations served in mainland China, with Neos flying to Nanjing and Tianjin, and the Air China Beijing flights.
