ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- An Airbus 330 aircraft operated by China's Hainan Airlines flew from Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg to Beijing Capital Airport on Sunday, marking the resumption of direct flights from Russia's second-largest city to the Chinese capital after nearly three years of halt.
According to the current plan, Hainan Airlines will operate the flights once a week on Sundays.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China announced that the country had resumed regular passenger flights with 58 countries after it removed certain COVID-19 restrictions on international passenger flights from Jan. 8, 2023.
It said that the number of countries handling flights to or from China and airlines operating these flights resumed to 64 percent and 80 percent, respectively, of the level in the same period of 2019.
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