Southern Chinese city adds flights for travel rush

Haikou Meilan International Airport in Haikou, capital of south China's Hainan Province, will add and resume more than 1,500 flights in September to meet the demand of the coming travel rush.

A total of 16 airlines, including Air China, Hainan Airlines and China Southern Airlines, plan to add and resume over 1,500 flights in Haikou, as this month sees the peak flow of students returning to colleges while next month will see a further spike for the National Day and Mid-autumn Festival holidays.

About 1,346 flights are expected to be added linking Haikou and major tourist cities including Guangzhou, Wuhan, Shenzhen and Shanghai. Meanwhile, about 180 flights are scheduled to be resumed.

The airport operated 12,548 flights and transported over 1.66 million passengers in August, the summer vacation travel peak, up 20.51 percent and 20.29 percent respectively over the previous month.