According to the Shanghai Airlines, a new flight will link Shanghai, the most dynamic city in China, and Budapest, the capital and the most populous city of Hungary. The flight is scheduled to fly on every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
The new flight will be operated by Boeing 787 aircraft of Shanghai Airlines. The flight FM869 will depart from Shanghai Pudong International Airport at 00:40 am Beijing time. It will arrive in Budapest Liszt Ferenc Nemzetközi Repülőtér at 06:00 local time. The return flight FM870 will leave Budapest at 12:30 local time and arrive in Shanghai at 04:50 Beijing time. The flight time is 10.5 hours.
Shanghai Airlines was established in 1985. It is now China's first commercial airline of multidimensional investment funded by the Shanghai municipal government and Shanghai local enterprises. The airline was initially restricted to domestic flights, but has operated international services since 1997.