Chinese airline offers US$70 ‘all you can take’ monthly subscription plan

An airline in China’s Inner Mongolia region is offering an all-you-can-take “subscription” service on its new flight route for 500 yuan (US$72) a month.<br/>The first flight from the region’s western Urad Middle Banner area to its biggest industrial city, Baotou, took off on Monday, news portal Chinanews.com reported.<br/>Before the new route was introduced, the only way to travel between the two places was by car or a three-hour bus ride. The flight cuts the travel time down to just 50 minutes. The route, operated by airline company General Aviation of Inner Mongolia, will run four days a week, on Mondays, Wednesday, Fridays and Sundays. To promote the new route, the airline is presently offering round-trip tickets at half price -- 230 yuan for adults and 99 yuan for students, according to the report. For regular travellers, it offers a 500-yuan “subscription” plan that allows a passenger to take as many flights between the two places as he can within a month, the report said.<br/>Departure times were also flexible based on passengers’ needs, it added.<br/>