Old routes become new routes
Old routes become new routes
Air China resumes Toronto and Cairo flights
China Eastern to link Shanghai and Geneva
April 3rd, 2025. Air China is dusting off routes between Beijing and Toronto and Beijing and Cairo, services it hasn’t operated for three decades or more.
Commencing on May 20th the flag carrier will reintroduce its direct flight between Beijing and Toronto which it last served 33 years ago.
The new service will operate twice a week on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Flight number CA993 will take off from Beijing’s Capital Airport at 12:30 and arrive at Toronto’s Pearson Airport at 13:10. The return journey departs from Toronto at 16:15 and lands back in Beijing at 18:15 the following day.
A Boeing 777-300ER aircraft has been earmarked for the flight which will take twelve hours and forty minutes for the outbound journey and fourteen hours for the return.
The airline will also reintroduce a service between Beijing’s Capital Airport and Cairo, the capital of Egypt, a route it last flew in 1994. The new service will operate three times a week on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Flight number CA829 will depart from Beijing at 02:30 and arrive at Cairo International Airport at 09:15. The return trip, flight number CA830, will depart from Cairo at 14:00 and arrive back in Beijing the following afternoon at 05:00.
The aircraft will be an Airbus A330-200 with eleven hours and forty-five minutes scheduled for the outbound flight and ten hours for the return.
China Eastern to add Shanghai to Geneva
Starting from June 16th China Eastern Airlines will launch a service linking Shanghai with Switzerland’s international finance centre, Geneva. The flight will operate four times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.
Flight number MU217 will depart from Shanghai Pudong International Airport at 01:30 and land at Geneva Airport at 07:50. The return journey, flight number, MU218 will take off from Geneva at 12:00 and land back in Shanghai at 11:30 the following morning.
The flight will be served by Airbus A330-200 aircraft. The duration of the westbound flight will be twelve hours and twenty minutes, the return will be about fifty minutes shorter.
Picture: Air China Airbus A330-200 by Allen Zhao Via Wikimedia Commons
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