BEIJING, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Non-stop fights from the airports in the Chinese mainland had already covered 40 countries along the Belt and Road routes by the end of 2017, according to a report released by Variflight.com on Tuesday.
To be specific, China has seen non-stop flights with 35 Asian countries and five countries in Eastern Europe, said the report.
In 2017, transportation capacity of the non-stop flights from the domestic airports to the international or regional airports was 83.291 million seats, up 5 percent year on year. In a breakdown, the transportation capacity of the non-stop flights from the domestic airports to the countries along the Belt and Road was 32.875 million seats, up 21.1 percent year on year, accounting for 39.5 percent of the domestic non-stop flights to the international or regional airports, presenting a year-on-year increase of 5.2 percentage points, according to the report. (Edited by Hu Pingchao, Sun Huanjie, hupingchao@xinhua.org)
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