Scandinavian Airlines announced on Tuesday that it would increase flights running from Shanghai to Copenhagen in Denmark from three to six per week as from October 31.

Currently, flights shuttle between the two cities on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Under the new schedule, flights are available every day, except Thursday.

The decision was made because the occupancy rate of the flights has gone up by 30 to 40 percent since September 1 when Northern Europe was opened as a tourism destination to Chinese citizens.

Northern Europe appeals to Chinese tourists because of its unique natural landscape and fairy tales of Denmark.

Scandinavian Airlines, jointly founded by Norway, Denmark and Sweden in 1946, is now the fourth largest airway in Europe. Before SAS started to operate direct flights from Shanghai to Northern Europe on March 29 this year, quite a number of Chinese tourists chose to travel Northern Europe via Hong Kong or Singapore.
 
(Xinhua News Agency October 20, 2004)