Yesterday, a flight test group, which is composed of the civil aviation, the Shanghai supervision bureau, China Eastern Airlines, Tianhe airport and Shengnongjia airport, built a Verification Test of the aircraft of A319 in Shengnongjia airport. This text turned out to be a success. The plane departured from Wuhan province at 11:20 yesterday and arrived at Shengnongjia airport at 12:10.  Then it finished some programs like taking off and landing, Air Traffic ControlCommunication, the safeguard of ground service, and it reached the standard of navigation. The citizens who want to be the first travellers of Shengnongjia can have a try.

According to the preliminary plan ,the China Eastern Airlines will have a first direct fly from Pudong airport to Wuhan and arrives at Shengnongjia on 8^th , May. There will have three flights per week from 8^th to 31^st in May, and one flight per day from 1^st , June. The prices of tickets are still being discussed. The experted economical class ticket from Pudong to Shengnongjia will be around 1600 yuan,and the back tichet will be around 1000 yuan.