Royal Jordanian will start operating its new regular route to the Chinese city of Guangzhou on March 21 with three weekly flights.

The frequency of the flights will be increased later to meet future passenger demand.

RJ’s Boeing 787 (DreamLiner) will depart tomorrow early in the morning for Guangzhou. On board the inaugural flight will be a RJ delegation headed by chief commercial officer Dr Majdi Sabri, a press delegation, officials from Jordan Tourism Board (JTB) and tour operators.

Guangzhou will be RJ’s second Chinese destination and the fifth in the Far East. The others are: Hong Kong, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta.

Flights to Guangzhou, China's third largest city and the largest in the south-central region of the country, are bound to serve the active trade and commerce traffic between Jordan and China.

In 2014, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport was China's second busiest and the world's 16th busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic; it handled over 55 million passengers that year.

Royal Jordanian President/ CEO Captain Suleiman Obeidat said that adding Guangzhou to the route network is in line with the strategy that RJ is now implementing; one of the pillars of this strategy is to review the route network and open new, profitable markets.

He highlighted that Guangzhou, the 56th destination on the RJ network, will be an added value to the network, meeting the demand of tourists and businessmen in the two countries, as well as of tradesmen from different neighbouring countries, such as Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Palestine, especially since Guangzhou serves as a significant national transportation hub and trading port.

Obeidat also said that Guangzhou offers a great opening to the tourism potential, enabling both Chinese and Jordanian tourists to visit.

RJ will fly to Guangzhou via Bangkok on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, using its wide-body Boeing 787 or Airbus 330 aircraft. -TradeArabia News Service