It is unnecessary to wait until the second half of next year to fly directly from Qingdao to Europe. It is learned from the Qingdao Airport, the air route from Qingdao - Shenyang ? Frankfurt jointly developed by Qingdao Airport, Shenyang Airport and Deutsche Lufthansa AG will fly for the first time next March, half a year in advance. This is the first intercontinental passenger air route of Qingdao Airport.
At present, passengers need to go to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou or South Korea firstly if they want to fly to Europe. To open the ?direct flight?, Qingdao Airport, Shenyang Airport and Deutsche Lufthansa AG signed a Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement this July, initially scheduled to open an intercontinental passenger air route from Qingdao - Shenyang ? Frankfurt in the second half of next year. Later on, the three parties made great efforts to accelerate the developing progress, and finally made it possible to advance the time of first flight to the first half of next year.
 It is learned that the intercontinental passenger air route from Qingdao - Shenyang ? Frankfurt will have 3 flights per week and its airplane type is A330-400. Currently, all parties concerned are busy in propelling each preparatory work.