{"id":417611,"date":"2025-12-01T17:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T17:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417611\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T17:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T17:02:11","slug":"china-airlines-adds-first-nonstop-flight-from-phoenix-to-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417611\/","title":{"rendered":"China Airlines adds first nonstop flight from Phoenix to Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 Flying to Asia from Arizona is about to be much easier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">China Airlines is introducing the first-ever nonstop flight from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.china-airlines.com\/en-us\/us_202508_phx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inaugural flight<\/a> is scheduled for Dec. 3, and the flight is scheduled to depart three times per week: on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sky Harbor officials said this first nonstop route to Asia will provide a much-needed connection for travelers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The China Airlines flight is set to be operated on an Airbus A350-900 aircraft with a capacity of 306 passengers and a three-class configuration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Earlier this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2025\/05\/21\/phoenix-sky-harbor-start-first-nonstop-flight-asia-starlux-airlines\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">STARLUX Airlines announced<\/a> that it was teaming up with American Airlines to offer the Phoenix-Taipei route. STARLUX is expected to begin service in early 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 Flying to Asia from Arizona is about to be much easier. China Airlines is introducing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":417612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7182,195618,195613,1589,7183,195616,195615,195617,195614,149587,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-417611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-azfamily","12":"tag-china-airlines-flights","13":"tag-china-airlines-phoenix","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-phoenix-news","16":"tag-phoenix-to-asia","17":"tag-phoenix-to-china","18":"tag-phoenix-to-taipei","19":"tag-phoenix-to-taiwan","20":"tag-sky-harbor","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115645392114416279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}