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A giant plane takes Qingdao-Taipei route

Updated: 2010-11-04

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A giant plane takes Qingdao-Taipei route

A Boeing 747-400, a giant passenger airplane owned by a Taiwan airline company, landed at the Qingdao Airport on Nov 3, officially opening the Qingdao-Taipei route.

Nicknamed “the Big Mac Air,” the plane, 70 meters in length and 64 meters in wing span, can accommodate 397 passengers, twice as many as a general airplane at the airport.

It is a newcomer in a series of Boeing 747s with a more advanced digital flight deck and a highly efficient and powerful jet engine, which enable the plane to reduce its gasoline consumption and extend its flight distance.

Authorities said they chose the giant airplane for the newly opened route because of increasingly demanding customers. They anticipate that visitors to Taiwan from the Qingdao Airport will exceed 120,000 person-times in 2010.

By Hao Nan