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Plane travel set to expand

From Sunday until Oct 27, a new holiday season will see more than 89,000 flights for freight and passengers each week, operated by about 200 airline companies, said the Civil Aviation Administration.

The number of flights will be 3.2 percent higher compared to the same season last year, the administration said. Domestic airlines run 67,263 flights each week, 3.6 percent higher than the same season in 2017. In the new season, 37 airline companies will open 266 routes connecting small cities such as Zunyi in Guizhou province and Boao in Hainan province with major cities such as Shanghai, Tianjin and Guangzhou in Guangdong province.