Nanjing City of east China's Jiangsu Province opened a charter flight air route to Kuala Lumpa of Malaysia Friday evening.

It became the city's third charter flight route after Nanjing-Bangkok (Thailand) and Nanjing-Nagoya (Japan) charter flight routes opened.

The charter flights to Kuala Lumpa will be irregular ones and will become regular in March, 2001.

A-320 of Air-Bus will be used for the charter fights.

Jiangsu Province is expected to receive 1.5 million overseas tourists this year.

(Xinhua 12/23/2000)