New routes from China to Jeju
Services from Shijiazhuang and Yangzhou, FlyArystan adds Astana to Yining
New routes from China to Jeju
New services from Shijiazhuang and Yangzhou, FlyArystan adds Astana to Yining
September 11th, 2026. China’s Spring Airlines has two routes to South Korea’s Jeju Island lined up. The first, from Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province, will hit the runway on October 25th and will operate twice a week on Sundays and Wednesdays.
Flight number 9C6157 will depart from Shijiazhuang Zhengding International Airport at 15:35 and will arrive at Jeju International Airport at 18:55. The return leg, flight number 9C6158, will leave Jeju at 19:55 and arrive back in Shijiazhuang at 21:40.
The journey time will be two hours and twenty minutes for the outbound flight and about twenty-five minutes longer for the return. The route will be served by Airbus A320 aircraft.
A day later on October 26th, Spring Airlines will resume its service linking Yangzhou, in Jiangsu province, China, and the South Korean island of Jeju, after a six year hiatus. The new service will operate four times a week, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, with two time slots.
On Mondays, flight number 9C7047 will take off from Yangzhou’s Taizhou International Airport at 16:10 and touch down at Jeju International Airport at 18:55. On all other days the departure time will be 10:55 and arrival in Jeju will be 13:40. The return journey, flight number 9C7048, will leave jeju at 19:55 on Mondays and 14:40 on all other days with arrival back in Yangzhou at 20:30 and 15:30 respectively.
The flight time will be about one hour and forty-five minutes in each direction, and the route will be served by Airbus A320 aircraft.
Astana to Yining
Kazakhstan’s low-cost carrier, FlyArystan, will be launching a service connecting the nation’s capital with Yining in China’s northwestern Xinjiang province. The service will operate twice a week on Wednesdays and Saturdays, commencing on October 28th.
Flight number FS7989 will depart from Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport, Astana, at 07:55 and will arrive at Ili Yining International Airport at 13:20. The return leg, flight number FS7990, will leave Yining at 15:20 and arrive back in Astana at 14:50.
An Airbus A320 will be deployed for the route and the flight time will be about two and a half hours in each direction.
Picture: Spring Airlines Airbus A320 by Shimin Gu via Wikimedia Commons
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