Gov. Deval Patrick yesterday welcomed to Boston the founder of Hainan Airlines, which will begin nonstop flights between the Hub and Beijing in June.
"We've been having this conversation about a direct flight to Beijing for seven years now," the governor told HNA Group Co. Chairman Chen Feng, a Harvard Business School alumnus he met on a trade mission to China in 2007. "But good things come to those who wait."
On June 20, China's fourth-largest airline will begin flights between the two cities four times a week.
"I hope with this flight, HNA builds a new bridge between Beijing and Boston," Chen said at yesterday's Harvard Club reception.
From July 21 to the end of August, Hainan will have daily flights between the two cities before reverting back to four weekly, said Joel M. Chusid, Hainan's executive director in the U.S.
"We want to go daily," he told the Herald, "but we have to watch demand."
Massport CEO Thomas Glynn said the new service will be key for business travelers, tourists and the more than 10,000 students from China who study at one of New England's 270 colleges and universities. It will also be key to the nearly 120,000 Chinese citizens who live in the region — the fifth-highest number in the U.S., Glynn said.
"Each year, about 212,000 passengers fly between Boston and China — the sixth most in the United States," he said, "but we are also the largest market to Beijing and Shanghai without nonstop service."
Boston will become Hainan's fourth North American destination, after Seattle, Chicago and Toronto, and the first on the East Coast.
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