A direct air route linking Zhengzhou City in central China's Henan Province, and Dubai, will launch in May, Henan Airport Group announced Saturday.
The first flight to connect the two places will fly four times a week -- every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, according to the airport.
Since the start of this year, seven more airlines have joined Zhengzhou airport, including three international airlines, which are Emirates Airlines, Thai Smile, and Tiger Airlines.
Thai Smile plans to launch a new weekly flight to links Zhengzhou and Phuket, Thailand, and a flight between Zhengzhou and Singapore is expected to fly three times a week by Tiger Airlines soon, the airport said.
A No.2 terminal was added to the Zhengzhou airport last December. Its size is four times over that of the No.1 terminal.