An air route between Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, and Xiamen, a coastal city in east China's Fujian Province, opened on Tuesday.
Xiamen is the seventh Chinese city to which Thai Airways International operates a direct flight. The other six are Beijing,Shanghai, Kunming, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Hong Kong. The airline runs a total of 80 flights per week to China so far.
The flight from Bangkok to Xiamen takes three hours, and is scheduled for every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
The airline plans another eight new routes to China in the nextfive years.