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In the evening of October 13^th, the new air route was opened. [photo/Sanya Phoenix International Airport]

On October 13^th at 9 pm, A330-200, an aeroplane of iFly Airline of Russia arrived at Sanya Phoenix International Airport with 310 passengers on board from Samara, Russia, marking the official opening of a scheduled flight route between Sanya and Samara. 

So far, a total of 37 international and regional air routes have been operated in Sanya Phoenix International Airport, covering many regions and countries such as Hongkong SAR, Macao SAR and Taiwan of China, Russia, South Korea, Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore, India and the UK.

The air line between Sanya and Samara operated by iFly Airline will be scheduled to fly once on every Wednesday and Sunday respectively, whose round-trip will take 18 hours and 20 minutes. It is estimated that the new route will bring over 30,000 new visitors to Sanya.

As the seventh regular air route and fifth regular intercontinental air route opened by iFly Airline in Sanya, the Samara route will fly between the two places for 14 times a week and carry 4500 Russian tourists on average. The airline company is preparing for the construction of an overnight base in Sanya Phoenix International Airport.

Samara is the capital of Samara State in Russia, covering 536,000 square meters, with 80.2% urban area, the population of 1.16 million people and 7,217 dollars GDP per capita. Samara is the first industrial city in Russia with the main industries such as automobile factories, engineering industries, chemical engineering and petrochemical industries, metallurgy and electric power industries. In addition, the city is one of the most important transportation hubs in Russia. Routes passing by Samara turn out to be the shortest when people travel from middle or east Europe to Siberia, the middle of Asia or Kazakhstan.

The opening of the new routes will make Sanya more international, providing convenience for the people in the two places to do business or travel, which is of great importance to improve Sanya's international air route network.