Madrid resumes 83 pct of direct flights to China

MADRID, Jul 13 (Xinhua) -- Eighty-three percent of the direct flights that had connected Spain's capital Madrid with China's major cities before the COVID-19 pandemic have already been resumed, Madrid City Council's Tourism Department said on Thursday.

At a cultural and tourist interchange event co-organized here by the department and China's Hebei Province, Almudena Maillo, Madrid City's councillor responsible for tourism, said that the department is working hard to fully restore air connectivity with China. A full resumption is expected by 2024.