Trains and flights from Wuhan set to resume on April 8

Starting April 8, Wuhan Tianhe International Airport will resume domestic passenger flights, and 17 railway stations are planning to reopen to passengers.

Train tickets from Wuhan on April 8 are in short supply with some sold out.

According to 12306, a China railway booking website, train tickets from Wuhan to big cities in other provinces including Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Shenzhen are sold out, and there's few remaining tickets on trains from Wuhan to Chongqing.

In the provincial cities, tickets departing from Wuhan are also very popular; only a small number of tickets are left from Wuhan to Yichang, though there are plenty of tickets from Wuhan to Xiangyang but few high-speed choices to Xianning.

Nearly 100 inbound and outbound flights are scheduled to resume at Wuhan airport on April 8, according to Wang Hai, marketing and sales manager of China Southern Airlines' Hubei Branch, mainly involved in the south, east, northwest, southwest, northeast, Xinjiang and nearly 30 routes, including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Kunming, Guiyang and nearly 30 cities.

China Eastern Airlines Wuhan will also resume some domestic flights on April 8.

China Eastern's domestic route network is being rapidly restored. In the route distribution, it will focus on increasing flight delivery in the main domestic routes and areas where workers are concentrated.

Among them, Wuhan to Shanghai Hongqiao and Shenzhen have three flights per day, to Chengdu with two flights per day, Shanghai Pudong, Guangzhou, Kunming, Sanya, Ningbo, and other routes to maintain one flight per day.

(Top image: Outside Wuhan Tianhe International Airport. /VCG)

(CGTN)