NANCHANG, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- A new air route was launched Monday linking Ganzhou City, east China's Jiangxi Province, and Thailand's popular resort city of Pattaya.

The air service is operated every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The outbound flight leaves Ganzhou at 12:40 p.m. Beijing time and arrives in Pattaya at 3:00 p.m. local time. The return flight departs Pattaya at 4:00 p.m. local time and arrives in Ganzhou at 8:15 p.m. Beijing time.

The airport in Ganzhou plans to open international air routes to Vietnam, Cambodia, Japan and other countries in the future.

The airport received 2 million passengers in 2019, operating flights with 31 airports across China.