China Eastern will start to operate a direct flight from east China's Nanjing, capital city of Jiangsu Province, to Singapore on March 20.

The direct flight, to be undertaken by an airbus A319, No. MU771, will fly on every Monday, Thursday and Saturday.

The flight will take off on 10:00 a.m. from Nanjing Lukou International Airport and arrive at Singapore at 3:50 p.m. local time. The flight will fly back from Singapore on 5:05 p.m. and arrive at Nanjing at 11:00 p.m..

The new route is expected to further enhance business and culture cooperation between China's Jiangsu and Singapore, a spokesman from China Eastern said.