Asiana Airlines will add extra two flights a week from Chengdu to Seoul from July 1st 2009. This will make a total of four flights per week.

The four flights are scheduled to arrive at Chengdu at 23:00 every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, and to take off from Chengdu at 00:20 the next day.

Cooperating with South Korean travel agencies, Asiana Airlines has promoted Chengdu and Kangding tourism products since May 2009. Also, it plans to launch a Seoul-Chengdu-Kangding route in July. According to the general manager of Asiana Airlines, tourism in Kangding has promising prospects; about 100 South Korean tourists would visit Kangding each week.