It's a bit difficult to travel to China recently since there're traffic restrictions and flights suspension due to the coronavirus outbreak. Now here's good news that some airlines have announced that they will resume flights to meet the requests for travelling to and from China.
First thing first, here's a brief of the current epidemic situation so far as of Saturday according to DingXiangYiSheng:
Confirmed cases: 77,924 worldwide
Deaths: 2,362, mostly in Hubei
Recovered cases: 21,248
Incubation period: no more than 14 days
New confirmed cases on decline outside Hubei
△ Epidemic map made by DingXiangYiSheng
We've posted a list of airlines that have canceled China flights according to media reports. It is reported that over 7,500 flights have been suspended as of Feb 1.
The suspension has resulted in great inconvenience to travellers from China and other countries, especially when the Spring Fesitval holiday is over and companies return to work.
In response to requests for the travelling, now some domestic and overseas airlines have announced to resume flights with China.
Here's a list of the resumption plans based on the announcements of airlines and some local media reports. Let's check!
Air China has resumed international multi-stop flights since Feb.
It resumes a Chengdu-Singapore flight each day from Feb 7 to Mar 31, and it plans to resume the Chengdu-Frankfurt flight on Feb 28.
On Feb 21, CEA said it plans to resume domestic and international flights in late February or March.
It will resume the Kunming-Yangon-Kunming flights on Feb 25 and 29, and the Kunming-Mandalay-Kunming flights on Feb 26 and 28.
Delta Air Lines will relaunch flights to Beijing and Shanghai on April 30. It has temporarily suspended its operation to China since Feb 6.
EgyptAir, the flagship carrier of Egypt, announced on Thursday that it will resume flights to and from China starting from Feb 27.
It will resume a flight every Thursday from Cairo to Beijing and then to Guangzhou. The return flight will start from Guangzhou and stop in Beijing before flying to Cairo.
Nordic airlines SAS will resume flights to and from Beijing and Shanghai from April, 4 flights per week.
It has decided to suspend all flights to and from these two cities until Feb 9, and later extended the plan to March 29.
Turkish airlines will resume 16 flights to and from Beijing from March.
Besides, the plan of suspending flights to and from Shanghai, Guangzhou and Xi'an will be extended to March 29.
United Airlines has pushed the resumption of its China flights back to late April. It has decided to suspend these flights until April 24.
It has announced the cancellations of its flights between the U.S. and Beijing, Chengdu, Hong Kong and Shanghai until Mar 28.
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VIETJET & VIETNAM AIRLINES
Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air has decided to resumed flights to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
Vietnam has announced to halt all flights to and from China from Feb 1 but later it eased the restricitons, saying that carriers could temporarily operate some flights.
Although China has seen a decrease in flights and temporary bans to and from some countries, more flights are resuming with people going back to work and run business.
China's civil aviation authority has stepped up efforts to ensure continuous international flights in order to meet people's travel and business demands amid the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak.
As of Feb 12, a total of 77 domestic and overseas airlines continue to operate 710 international routes between China and 46 countries and regions handling 2,610 passenger and cargo flights per week.
Domestic airlines still operate international routes to major hub cities, such as Tokyo, Seoul, Frankfurt, Paris, London, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sao Paulo and Johannesburg, to facilitate Chinese and foreign travelers.
△ A China Southern Airlines crew holds a "Stay strong Wuhan" banner before their flight.
CGTN reported that multiple airlines are expected to resume their China flights in late April after extending the suspension period of their operations.
Anyway, we suggest you to check flight status frequently for up-to-the-minute info about your flight plans, or get updates via notification services of the airlines.
If you know any updates of the flights, please leave a comment below and tell us!
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SOURCE | Xinhua / ThePaper / China Daily
