Air China will alter its Beijing-Karachi route from March 29, 2009, by changing the current round-trip Beijing-Urumuqi-Karachi route to Beijing-Chengdu-Karachi.

The flights are scheduled to depart from Beijing every Monday and Thursday and return from Karachi every Tuesday and Friday.

At Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA), passengers from over 40 cities can transfer to Air China flight CA945 to Chengdu or Karachi within four hours.

And at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, passengers from 12 cities can transfer onto CA945 to Karachi within four hours.