North Korean state-owned airline Air Koryo will begin operating new routes from Pyongyang to the Chinese cities of Xian and Chengdu in the coming weeks, a representative for the company confirmed to NK News on Friday.

Air Koryo currently operates regular international flights to Beijing and Shenyang in China, as well as Vladivostok on Russia’s far east coast.

The new routes to Xian, Shaanxi Province and Chengdu, Sichuan Province would become Air Koryo’s longest regularly-scheduled routes, at over 1500 km to Xian and over 2100 km to Chengdu.

The Air Koryo representative could not confirm specific dates the two routes