Newsdeck: Airlines suspend China flights over coronavirus By Reuters
Air Canada said on Jan. 28 it was cancelling select flights to China.Air France said on Jan. 30 it suspended all scheduled flights to and from mainland China until Feb. 9.Air India said it was cancelling its Mumbai-Delhi-Shanghai flight from Jan. 31 to Feb. 14.South Korean budget carrier Air Seoul said on Jan. 28 it had suspended all flights to China.Tanzania’s state-owned carrier said it would postpone its maiden flights to China. It had planned to begin charter flights to China in February.
Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific said it would progressively reduce capacity to and from mainland China by 50% or more from Jan. 30 to the end of March.The U.S. airline said on Jan. 29 it was reducing flights to China to 21 per week from 42, starting Feb. 6 through April 30.Egypt’s flag carrier said on Jan. 30 it would suspend all flights to and from China starting Feb. 1.The African carrier on Jan. 30 denied reports it had suspended all flights to China.
Finnair will suspend its three weekly flights between Helsinki and Beijing Daxing between Feb. 5 and March 29 and its two weekly flights between Helsinki and Nanjing between Feb. 8 and March 29.Indonesia’s Lion Air Group said on Jan. 29 it would suspend all flights to China from February. The airline has suspended six flights from several Indonesian cities to China so far and will suspend the rest next month.Germany’s Lufthansa said on Jan.
The cancellations will reduce the carrier’s daily departures for mainland China and Hong Kong to four daily departures from 12. United had previously suspended 24 U.S. flights to Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai between Feb. 1 and Feb. 8 because of a significant drop in demand.UPS has cancelled 22 China flights, as a result of the Wuhan quarantines and normal manufacturing closures due to the Lunar New Year holiday, UPS Chief Executive David Abney said on Jan. 30. He did not specify how many flights cancellations were due to the virus.Virgin Atlantic said on Jan.
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