Shijiazhuang Airport will add 15 domestic routes and an international route to South Korea’s Jeju Island in June and July, and increase flight frequencies on 10 existing routes. Luo Zhanling, deputy secretary of Party Committee of Hebei Airport Management Group announced the changes in a press conference.

By July, the airport will have flights to 37 cities including Yantai, Zhangjiajie, Wenzhou, Daqing, Nanning and Jeju Island..

Officials said that the provincial government will establish Hebei Airlines by reordering Northeast Airlines, a private airline based on Shenyang, northeast China’s Liaoning province.

Currently Hebei does not have its own airline.

By Guo Changdong and Liu Xiang