On June 23, GX7859, which is operated by Beibu Gulf Airlines, landed at Jingzhou Shashi Airport at 6:13 p.m. and departed at 6:54 p.m. for Nanning Wuxu International Airport, which marked the first successful flight of the Jingzhou-Nanning route.
The flight number of the Jingzhou-Nanning route is GX7860/59, and the aircraft model is E190 jet. The flight schedule is on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The time for take-off and the time for landing from Nanning to Jingzhou are 16:00 and 17:50, and the time for take-off and the time for landing from Jingzhou to Nanning are 18:30 and 20:25.
Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the permanent venue of the China-ASEAN Expo and the core city of the Beibu Gulf urban cluster, is known as "Green City of China" and "City of Folk Songs". In the past, there was no direct flight from Jingzhou to Nanning, and to travel between the two cities, one had to transfer via Wuhan or Jingmen, which took as long as 10 to 20 hours. The opening of the direct flight from Jingzhou to Nanning has shortened the time for traveling between the two cities to 2 hours. Last year, Guangxi LiuGong Machinery Co., Ltd. and Hubei Jianghan Construction Engineering Machinery Co., Ltd. jointly built the LiuGong Machinery Central China Industrial Base in Jingzhou. According to the statistics of the chambers of commerce of the two cities, there are more than 200,000 people from Jingzhou who start business and work in Guangxi, distributed in Nanning, Liuzhou, Qinzhou and other cities in Guangxi. The opening of the new route greatly facilitates the economic and trade exchanges between Central South China and Guangxi, contributing to the rapid economic development of the two cities.
It is reported that in order to cope with the summer travel rush in civil aviation, GX Airlines has launched the activity of purchasing air tickets at a discount in advance during the opening of the new route for passengers planning to travel from Jingzhou to Nanning, between which the minimum one-way fare is RMB 199.