Important change concerning Budapest-Beijing flight

Air China is increasing the number of its flights between Beijing and the Hungarian capital from three to four a week, with Boeing 787s flying on Sunday evenings from mid-July.

More flights to Beijing

Air China’s latest schedule update will see four flights a week on the Beijing–Budapest route between 14 July and 1 September, instead of the current three, according to a post on the Aeroroutes schedule analysis site.

Beijing, China. Photo: depositphotos.com

In addition to Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays, the Chinese airline’s Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners will now fly the route on Sundays.

On Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays local time, CA 719 takes off from Beijing at 03:15 and arrives in Budapest at 07:35, returning with CA 720 at 12:20 and landing at 04:10 the next day.

On Sundays, flight CA 577 departs the Chinese capital at 14:10 local time and arrives in Budapest at 18:30, returning as CA 578 at 20:30 and arriving at 12:20 the next day.

In addition to Budapest, Air China is also expanding its capacity to Athens, Copenhagen, London Gatwick and Istanbul by adding new flights or larger capacity aircraft, AIRportal.hu writes.

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