{"id":90872,"date":"2017-02-22T21:57:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T02:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=90872"},"modified":"2017-02-22T21:57:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T02:57:14","slug":"chinas-sichuan-airlines-to-deliver-boost-for-new-zealand-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/22\/chinas-sichuan-airlines-to-deliver-boost-for-new-zealand-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Sichuan Airlines to deliver boost for New Zealand economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_90873\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90873\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13087815_1030266223729868_3403971589079350910_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90873\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13087815_1030266223729868_3403971589079350910_n.jpg\" alt=\"China's Sichuan Airlines is to begin direct flights to New Zealand in June, providing a significant boost to the New Zealand economy, Auckland Airport officials said Wednesday.  (Photo: Sichuan Airlines\/Facebook)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13087815_1030266223729868_3403971589079350910_n.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13087815_1030266223729868_3403971589079350910_n-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">China&#8217;s Sichuan Airlines is to begin direct flights to New Zealand in June, providing a significant boost to the New Zealand economy, Auckland Airport officials said Wednesday. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scal.com.cn\/photos\/a.844261758996983.1073741828.843329919090167\/1030266223729868\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Sichuan Airlines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WELLINGTON\u2014China&#8217;s Sichuan Airlines is to begin direct flights to New Zealand in June, providing a significant boost to the New Zealand economy, Auckland Airport officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sichuan Airlines will operate between Auckland and Chengdu three times a week on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, using an A330-200 aircraft with direct flights taking 13 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The service is expected to add 81,000 seats a year to and from China and deliver a boost of an estimated 102 million NZ dollars (73.1 million U.S. dollars) to the New Zealand economy, airport acting aeronautical commercial general manager Scott Tasker said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sichuan Airlines will provide the first direct flight from Chengdu to New Zealand and will cater for the growing numbers of Chinese visiting our country,&#8221; said Tasker.<\/p>\n<p>On average, each Chinese visitor spent about 4,300 NZ dollars (3,082 U.S. dollars) in New Zealand, according to government figures, and they were increasingly travelling more widely around the country, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WELLINGTON\u2014China&#8217;s Sichuan Airlines is to begin direct flights to New Zealand in June, providing a significant boost to the New &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":90873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16,17],"tags":[15657,15656],"class_list":["post-90872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news","category-news-w","tag-new-zealand-economy","tag-sichuan-airlines","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}