Tit-For-Tat Move, US Suspends 26 Chinese Flights Over Covid Cases

U.S. Government said on Thursday that his party would suspend 26 flights bound by China from the United States by four Chinese operators in responding to the decision of the Chinese government to suspend several U.S. operator flights. for the COVID-19 case.

The decision will suspend 26 flights by Xiamen, Air China, China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines starting September 5 and runs until September 28. U.S. Transportation Department Citing new cancellation from 26 American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines flight through the Covid -19 case.

Suspension includes 19 flights from Los Angeles and 7 China Eastern Flights from New York.The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not immediately comment.

USDOT said that on August 7 the Chinese authorities revised their policies so that if the number of passengers tested positively Covid-19 reached 4% of the total number of passengers in flights to China, one flight would be suspended and two flights if reached 8%.

USDOT said the US government had repeatedly raised

Objection with the Chinese government said the rules of putting “improper mistakes on operators” when travelers tested negative before their flight from the United States only to “test positively Covid-19 after their arrival in China.”

Beijing and Washington have been arguing because of the air service since the beginning of Pandemi. In August 2021, USDOT limited four flights from Chinese operators to 40% of passenger capacity for four weeks after Beijing imposed identical limits on four United Airlines flights.

Before the new cancellation, three US airlines and four Chinese operators operated around 20 flights a week between countries, far below the number more than 100 per week before Pandemi.