Flight between Portugal and China starts to take place twice a week
Flight will connect Lisbon to one of the most prosperous areas of China, where 53 million people live
As of this month, the frequency of the direct flight between Portugal and China will increase from one to two times, starting this month, a source from the Chinese airline Capital Airlines confirmed to the Lusa agency.
The direct flight between the two countries departs from Lisbon, bound for Hangzhou, the capital of the province of Zhejiang, one of the most prosperous in China, with around 53 million inhabitants, located on the east coast of the Asian country.
The flight only took place on Saturdays. From next week it will also take place on Wednesday.
The altered link as a consequence of the preventive measures adopted by China against covid-19. Since 2020, it has been held only once a week, originally destined for Xian, in central China.
The Xian authorities suspended the connection with the city on December 25, 2021, at a time when it will face an outbreak of covid-19, and it will only fly again on 12 of the past.
The airline then chose to fly to Hangzhou.
Under the “zero cases” strategy of covid-19, China has kept all three borders closed since 2020. casa.
Flights to China are also subject to the ‘circuit breaker’ policy, in which when five or more cases are detected on board, the connection is suspended for a week. If there are ten or more cases, the call is suspended for two weeks.
An economy trip from flights to cheap flights from flights to Lisbon – Hangzhou, cost almost 3,000.