New flight to Chengdu from Europe

The most convenient city of going to Tibet across China is Chengdu. Previously for visiting Tibet, European visitors have to fly to Beijing or shanghai first, and then by china domestic flight to Chengdu and for the continuing flight to Tibet; this has made the travel costs much higher than other tours of china, and it also costs more hours in the air for getting into Tibet and leaving for return;  after having the first direct Chengdu & Europe flight of Chengdu to Amsterdam; a new direct europe Chengdu flight will be open soon; On 2012, December 20th, British Airways announced that a direct flight between Chengdu and London will be opened since the next September; following that, Sichuan airline is planning to open a Chengdu to Paris direct flight in the next June; all those flights between Chengdu and Amsterdam, London, Paris takes about 10 -11 hours, it is at least 6 hours minimum shorter than the flight via Beijing or Shanghai; and it helps to make easy access to both Tibet and the other minority regions of southwest of China, such as Miao people in Guizhou, Bai people and Thai people in Yunnan province;  and it is more easy to make a visit to Kham and Amdo