The passenger throughput of airlines linking ASEAN countries at Nanning Wuxu International Airport in 2019 exceeds over one million for the first time. [Photo/gx.chinanews.com]

Guangxi has opened 28 passenger and freight routes connecting to major airports of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries in 2019, improving regional connectivity, the Guangxi Airport Group announced on Jan 19.

In recent years, Guangxi's construction of an aviation gateway hub facing ASEAN has begun to take shape, turning Nanning and Guilin into two gateway hub airports.

More flights connecting capital cities of ASEAN countries and popular tourist destinations have been conducted. The number of flights operating from Nanning to Bangkok, Thailand has increased from 15 to 25 a week, while a total of 14 flights are conducted from Nanning to Singapore every week compared to the previous seven a week. Five flights heading to Hanoi, Vietnam have been launched every week compared to the previous two.

New routes linking Guangxi and Naypyidaw, capital of Myanmar, Sihanoukville Autonomous Port, Cambodia, as well as Mandalay, Myanmar also made their debut in 2019.

As an important node city of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor in West China, Guangxi has launched new air routes, allowing regions in West China to cooperate with Southeast Asia countries via Guangxi. It has cooperated with Gansu Civil Aviation Group, launching the Lanzhou-Nanning-Singapore air route.

The whole-cargo route running between Nanning and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam was put into operation in October 2019, contributing to the cargo transportation between Guangxi and ASEAN countries.　

Statistics have shown that the passenger throughput of airlines linking ASEAN countries at Nanning Wuxu International Airport in 2019 exceeded over one million for the first time.