Barcelona – Beijing flights resume after three-year Covid hiatus
Connections to Shanghai and Hong Kong still missing as Seoul and Singapore routes already up and running
Flights between Barcelona and Beijing resumed on Thursday after a three-year Covid hiatus.
The route operated by Air China will include three flights per week: on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
During the event marking the new service, China's consul in Barcelona, Zhu Jingyang, believes it will be "the first of many" – indeed, in 2019, 109,000 traveled between the Catalan capital and Beijing or Shanghai in 2019 with Air China, and 67,000 more used the route to connect with other flights.
Also, he hoped that in the coming months many more flights are operated between Catalonia and China.
"We unite again two very important cities that have been key in trade and cultural exchanges," said Air China's director general in Barcelona, Zhao Haixing.
Overall, before Covid, 433,000 people used the different routes linking Barcelona and China every year.
The pandemic halted the connections to Asia, but aircrafts are now traveling again between El Prat airport and Seoul (South Korea) or Singapore, but routes to Shanghai and Hong Kong are still pending to be operated again.