Air Macau provides transit flights to Europe, Americas

The city’s flag carrier Air Macau has provided international interline flight tickets with its parent company Air China, allowing passengers departing from the local airport to transfer for Europe and the Americas in Beijing or Chengdu airports. According to the official website of Air Macau, the interline flight service is available until the end of the year. In fact, in April this year the airline’s vice president Liao Hanxi announced the intention of the plan without revealing the available date of the service at that time. The Air Macau website indicates passengers can travel from Macau to a total of 15 European cities such as Frankfurt, Rome, London, Paris and Madrid by transiting at Beijing Airport. In addition, flights to the Americas are available for passengers stopping over in the Chinese capital, with destinations including Canada’s Vancouver, Brazil’s São Paulo, and five cities in the United States; namely, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Washington, and Hawaii. The route will also provide flights to Mongolia and the Russian Far East city of Chita. Meanwhile, for those transferring at Chengdu, flights to Mumbai in India, Kathmandu in Nepal, Karachi in Pakistan and Frankfurt in Germany have been offered. Currently, the city only has direct international flights to a total of eight Asian countries or regions; namely, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Cambodia. For other international flights, such as to Europe, local travellers had to go for nearby airports, such as Hong Kong or Zhuhai prior to Air Macau’s new service.