SHANGHAI -- The first Chinese flight bringing home stranded Chinese tourists after the closure of Thailand's main international airport in Bangkok, arrived at eastern Shanghai before dawn on Sunday.

Aboard the China Eastern MU Flight 548 were 246 of less than 3,000 Chinese tourists believed being trapped in Thailand. The plane which left the Shanghai Pudong International Airport at noon Saturday, returned to the airport at 2:15 on Sunday.

The first Chinese flight bringing home stranded Chinese tourists after the closure of Thailand's main international airport in Bangkok arrives in Shanghai before dawn on Sunday, November 30, 2008. [Xinhua]

Twenty-eight tourists aboard will fly to Kunming, the provincial capital of southern Yunnan Province, from Shanghai.

Chinese aviation authorities sent planes to Thailand to bring home the remaining stranded Chinese tourists after the closure of the Suvarnabhumi International Airport.

Zhou, a father who was expecting his stranded daughter to arrive on Sunday, rushed to the Pudong airport at 1:00 on Sunday. His daughter had an internship with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in the turmoil country after anti-government protesters laid siege to Thailand's Suvarnabhumi International Airport earlier last week.

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