RJ to operate regular flights to Guangzhou as of March 21

AMMAN — Royal Jordanian (RJ) said on Sunday it will inaugurate a new regular route from Amman to the Chinese city of Guangzhou, also known as Canton, as of March 21, with three weekly flights.

Guangzhou will be RJ’s second Chinese destination and the fifth in the Far East, a statement from the airline said. 

The others are: Hong Kong, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta.

“Operating flights to Guangzhou, China’s third largest city and the largest in the south-central region of the country, is bound to serve the active trade and commerce traffic between Jordan and China,” RJ said in the statement.

In 2014, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport was China’s second busiest and the world’s 16th busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic; it handled over 55 million passengers that year.

RJ President/CEO Captain Suleiman Obeidat said adding Guangzhou to the route network is in line with the strategy that RJ is now implementing; one of the pillars of this strategy is to review the route network and open new, profitable markets, according to the statement.

Obeidat added that Guangzhou, the 56th destination on the RJ network, will be “an added value to the network”, meeting the demand of traders and businessmen from the two countries, as well as merchants from neighbouring countries.

The statement quoted him as saying that Guangzhou has a great potential for the tourism market, enabling both Chinese and Jordanian tourists to visit. 

RJ said it will run flights to Guangzhou via Bangkok on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, using its wide-body Boeing 787 or Airbus 330 aircraft. 

RJ customers may book their flights at any of the company’s sales offices or agents in Jordan, China and worldwide, through the airline’s booking engine at www.rj.com, through the RJ smartphone application or by contacting the RJ call centre at 0096265100000, the statement said.

The RJ network saw the addition of four cities in the past eight months: Najaf, Tabuk, Ankara and Jakarta. It shut down others for both economic and security reasons, according to the statement.