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Flight links Silicon Valley to Silk Road

By Lia Zhu in San Francisco | China Daily | Updated: 2016-05-09 10:04

A new direct flight between San Francisco and Xi'an, capital city of Northwest China's Shaanxi province, launched on Sunday, linking Silicon Valley and the Silk Road.

 Flight links Silicon Valley to Silk Road

Luo Linquan (center), Chinese consul general in San Francisco, officials from United Airlines and San Francisco and crew members of the new direct flight between San Francisco and Xi'an, capital city of Shaanxi province in Northwest China, celebrate the launch of the route at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Sunday at the San Francisco International Airport. Lia Zhu / China Daily

The seasonal service will be operated by United Airlines (UA) with a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, three times a week during the peak travel period from May 8 to Oct 27.

"We now connect for the first time ever Silicon Valley with Xi'an, the eastern part of the Silk Road," said Marcel Fuchs, UA's vice-president of Atlantic and Pacific sales, at the launch ceremony at San Francisco International Airport (SFO).

The flights will depart SFO at 1:25 pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays and arrive in Xi'an at 5:30 pm the following days. The return flights will depart Xi'an's Xianyang International Airport at 9:30 am on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and arrive in San Francisco at 6:35 am the same days. Flying times will be about 13 hours westbound, and 12 hours eastbound.

"After Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu, we are so pleased to be adding Xi'an as our fourth destination in Chinese mainland," said Fuchs.

Two years ago, UA launched a San Francisco-Chengdu route, the first time that a US airline flew beyond Beijing and Shanghai, Fuchs said.

According to Ivar Satero, deputy airport director of SFO, the new direct route between San Francisco and Xi'an represents three firsts - the flight is the first trans-Pacific flight to Xi'an, UA will be the first US airline to serve the Chinese city, and SFO will be the first airport in the US to serve Xi'an with a direct flight.

UA began nonstop service to China in 1986 and it currently has 96 weekly departures serving Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and Hong Kong.

It will begin new nonstop service between San Francisco and Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province, on July 13.

"The presidents of China and the United States declared 2o16 as the year of tourism. In fact, we are expecting more than 3 million Chinese tourists to arrive," said Fuchs. "United Airlines will provide more service and more seats to China than anybody else. I'm convinced we'll see many more Chinese visitors coming to San Francisco."

Last year, 2.1 million US tourists visited China, and 2.7 million Chinese traveled to the US, which means 13,000 people flying between the two countries every day, said Luo Linquan, Chinese consul general in San Francisco.

Thanks to the China-US Tourism Year, more than 5 million tourists are expected to travel between the two countries this year, he said.

"With around 1 million Chinese Americans living in the Bay Area, the demand for traveling between San Francisco and China is high and sustainable," Luo said.

"I believe this new service will greatly promote our bilateral communication not only in tourism, but also in economy, trade, investment, education and culture," he said.

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