{"id":56024,"date":"2025-04-27T23:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T23:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/56024\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T23:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T23:52:12","slug":"hainan-airlines-extends-edinburgh-beijing-service-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/56024\/","title":{"rendered":"Hainan Airlines extends Edinburgh-Beijing service \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>       \t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Hainan-Airlines-contributed-pic.png\" alt=\"Hainan Airlines - contributed pic\" class=\"wp-image-59899 lazyload\"\/>Hainan will provide a year-round service<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Scotland\u2019s roster of international flights received a second boost in recent days after Hainan Airlines said it will operate the country\u2019s only direct service to China all year-round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The airline currently operates a service between Edinburgh and Beijing from March until October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Gordon Dewar, chief executive of Edinburgh Airport said: \u201cWe\u2019ve always been proud of being home to Scotland\u2019s only direct service to China so it\u2019s great to see Hainan making that a year-round route.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cEnsuring Scotland has connections to the world is a key aim for us, and having direct access to one of the world\u2019s biggest economies is something that will be welcomed by many industries, and by our partners in Edinburgh and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/2025\/04\/united-airlines-grows-transatlantic-service-from-edinburgh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Airlines<\/a> said will extend its seasonal service between Edinburgh and Washington DC to almost year-round, increasing its seat offering from the Scottish capital by almost 10%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hainan will provide a year-round service Scotland\u2019s roster of international flights received a second boost in recent days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,29563,4884,29564,29565,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-56024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-edinburgh-beijing-flights","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-hainan-airlines","13":"tag-hainan-and-edinburgh","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114412620783144187","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}