New Austrian Airlines flight to Shanghai as of April

As of 4 April 2016,  Austrian Airlines will fly to Shanghai five times a week, and daily as of 1 May 2016, making Shanghai the second Austrian Airlines destination in China after Beijing. Flight duration from Vienna to more-than-8,500-km-away Shanghai is appr. 10:20 hours. Flights are operated with a Boeing 777. Currently, overall 26 weekly non-stop flights are offered to Asia. On top of that, Sri Lankan capital Colombo will, with one weekly flight, be newly included in the flight schedule as of 27 October 2015.