Three new routes from China

Chengdu to Denpasar and Sapporo, Yuncheng to Nagoya
Three new routes from China

Three new routes from China
Chengdu to Denpasar and Sapporo, Yuncheng to Nagoya

July 25th, 2025. Sichuan Airlines have two new services lined up. The first will link Chengdu with the Indonesian holiday island of Bali, the second with Japan’s winter city of Sapporo.

The service to Denpasar, Bali, will operate daily starting on September 26th. Flight number 3U3985 will take off from Chengdu’s Tianfu International Airport at 15:15 and arrive at Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport, Denpasar, at 22:05. The return journey, flight number 3U3986, leaves Denpasar at 23:05 and touches down back in Chengdu at 05:50 the next morning.

The route will be served by Airbus A320 aircraft, and the journey time will be a little under seven hours in each direction.

Starting on October 26th, the airline will also launch a service to Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido in Japan. The service will operate three times a week on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays with two different time slots.

On Sundays and Fridays, flight number 3U3987 will take off from Changdu at 13:25 and arrive at Sapporo New Chitose Airport at 20:00. The return leg, flight number 3U3988, departs from Sapporo at 21:00 and arrives back in Chengdu at 03:05 the following morning.

On Wednesdays, the service will depart from Chengdu at 08:55 and touch down in Sapporo at 16:30. The return leg will depart again at 16:30, landing back in Chengdu at 22:35.

The duration of the outbound journey will be about five and a half hours, the return will be about seven hours, and the aircraft will be Airbus A320.

Yuncheng to Nagoya

Meanwhile, from August 2nd, Shenzhen Airlines will be launching a service between Yuncheng in China’s Shanxi province and Nagoya in Japan. The service will operate four times a week on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Flight number ZH751 will take off from Yuncheng Guanhong Airport at 09:10 and will touch down at Chubu Centrair International Airport, Nagoya, at 14:00. The return journey, flight number ZH752, will depart from Nagoya at 15:00 and arrive back in Yuncheng at 18:00.

The flight will be served by Airbus A320 aircraft, and the journey time will be about four hours in each direction.

Picture: Water Palace, Ubud, Bali ©David Sutton/themangoroad.con

Sichuan Airlines website
Shenzhen Airlines website

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