A PASSENGER flight from Qingdao to Frankfurt, operated by Lufthansa Airlines, will open in the second half of 2012.

    It will be the first European passenger flight departing from Qingdao Airport. The flight will make a stop at Shenyang Airport.

    There will be three flights every week and the plane used will be an Airbus 330-400.

    Qingdao Airport has made great efforts increasing international flights in recent years.

    It opened the first international cargo flight from Qingdao to Los Angeles this year.

    The throughput of the airport reached 5.48 million passengers in the first half of this year. International passengers reached 775,000.

    There are 1,300 flights departing from Qingdao Airport each week.

    (Chen Ting, Li Xiaohan)