Xiamen Air began Vancouver route with Dreamliner 787

China’s Xiamen Airlines began 3X-weekly Xiamen-Vancouver service, its first nonstop from Fujian Province to North America.

The Boeing 787-8 service flies Monday, Thursday and Saturday from Xiamen’s Gaoqi International Airport. Xiamen is considered a vacation spot in southeast China and a 72-hour visa-free stopover program aids the service.

The airline’s 787-8 Dreamliner is configured with four first-class seats, 18 business class and 215 economy seats.

This is the fifth airline from Mainland China flying to Vancouver International Airport. The airport has seen 8,460,421 passengers in 2016 through May, up 7.5%. Movements through May totaled 110,253, down 0.7%

Xiamen Airlines flies an all-Boeing fleet of 149 aircraft to more than 50 cities across China and over 20 international destinations in Asia, Europe and North America. The Chinese carrier also owns two local airlines—Hebei Airlines and Jiangxi Air—out of its Xiamen hub and carries over 23 million passengers a year.

ATWOnline