China’s low cost carrier (LCC), Spring Airlines (9S) began a programmed charter flight on July 28 between Ibaraki and Shanghai. The airline is the China’s only one private carrier with its base in Shanghai operating 50 routes within China. Ibaraki is the airline’s first international destination. Speaking at a media briefing held later on the same day, Wang Zhenghua, Chairman of Spring Airlines, said that the inaugural flight from Shanghai and from Ibaraki registered a seat load factor of 85 percent and 80 percent respectively, adding, however, that he was “extremely disappointed†about the load factors.
China’s low cost carrier (LCC), Spring Airlines (9S) began a programmed charter flight on July 28 between Ibaraki and Shanghai. The airline is the China’s only one private carrier with its base in Shanghai operating 50 routes within China. Ibaraki is the airline’s first international destination. Speaking at a media briefing held later on the same day, Wang Zhenghua, Chairman of Spring Airlines, said that the inaugural flight from Shanghai and from Ibaraki registered a seat load factor of 85 percent and 80 percent respectively, adding, however, that he was “extremely disappointed†about the load factors.
