All eight Chinese airlines that flew through Sydney pre-Covid have now returned.
Seat capacity from Sydney airport to mainland China will be 86 per cent recovered in November compared to pre-Covid.
This week, Sydney airport welcomed back Sichuan Airlines, with flight 3U3883 from Chengdu touching down on 30 October.
The airline’s inaugural flight into Sydney was in December 2013, with services pausing from early February 2020, when Covid travel restrictions began in China.
Sichuan Airlines is the final of the eight Chinese airlines to resume services to Sydney since China began lifting Covid travel restrictions in January.
At the start of the year, there were just three Chinese carriers flying a total of four return services between Sydney and mainland China.
From November, the eight Chinese carriers and Qantas will offer a total of 85 return services a week between Sydney and the mainland.
Sichuan Airlines is the only one offering direct flights between Sydney and Chengdu, the capital of the Sichuan province in Southwestern China.
The city of Chengdu is the fourth largest by population in China and a strategic economic and financial hub in the region. It’s a popular tourist destination, renowned as the home of the giant pandas and for its natural beauty and spicy hotpot cuisine.
The airline is currently running three weekly return services, increasing to five per week from 19 November.
Airlines flying direct services from Sydney to mainland China: Air China; Beijing Capital Airlines; China Eastern Airlines; China Southern Airlines; Hainan Airlines; Qantas; Sichuan Airlines; Tianjin Airlines; and Xiamen Airlines.
