{"id":52665,"date":"2019-11-30T15:35:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T07:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=52665"},"modified":"2019-11-30T15:37:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T07:37:50","slug":"first-non-stop-flight-from-egypts-cairo-to-chinas-hangzhou-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=52665","title":{"rendered":"First Non-Stop Flight From Egypt&#8217;s Cairo To China&#8217;s Hangzhou Takes Off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CAIRO, Nov 30 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; The first non-stop flight from Egypt&#8217;s capital Cairo to the city of Hangzhou in eastern China has taken off from the Cairo International Airport at 02:00 local time (00:00 GMT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the flight number MS953, the flight, which is launched by Egypt&#8217;s flag carrier, EgyptAir, will spend around 11 hours in the air and land on Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport at 19:00 local time (11:00 GMT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flight almost carries a full cabin and the environment on the flight is quite cozy, said Fu Hangliang, a passenger on the flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EgyptAir announced the new flight route in Oct and offered a 50-percent discount for the flight valid until Nov 5, for travel from Nov 29 till Dec 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The inauguration of the new routes comes within EgyptAir&#8217;s interest in expanding in the Asian market and providing a distinctive service at a competitive price,&#8221; said a statement on EgyptAir&#8217;s official website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EgyptAir, a Star Alliance member, has previously been operating daily flight to Guangzhou, three flights a week to Beijing and two flights a week to Chengdu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Egypt is a favourable attraction to hundreds of thousands of Chinese tourists each year, for its historical sites and sunny sandy beaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly half a million Chinese tourists visited Egypt in 2018, compared with only 300,000 in 2017, amid expectations of more tourists visiting the Middle Eastern country in 2019, according to official statistics.&#8211; NNN-XINHUA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO, Nov 30 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; The first non-stop flight from Egypt&#8217;s capital Cairo to the city of Hangzhou in eastern China has taken off from the Cairo International Airport at 02:00 local time (00:00 GMT). With the flight number MS953, the flight, which is launched by Egypt&#8217;s flag carrier, EgyptAir, will spend around 11 hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":52667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,300,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52665"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}