CHINA's airlines will be allowed to boost their weekly round-trip US flights to 50 starting on March 31, up from the current 35, said the US Department of Transportation (USDOT), Reuters reports.
This returns the market to 33 per cent of pre-Covid levels. The new approval rating 'is a significant step forward in further normalisation of the US-China market in anticipation of the Summer 2024 traffic season,' said the USDOT.
More than 150 weekly round-trip passenger flights were allowed by each side before restrictions were imposed in early 2020 due to Covid, but until August 2023, chinese and US carriers could each fly only 12 a week between the two countries.
The number rose on September 1 to 18 weekly round-trips and then to 24 per week starting October. 29. The USDOT approved 35 for Chinese carriers in November.
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This returns the market to 33 per cent of pre-Covid levels. The new approval rating 'is a significant step forward in further normalisation of the US-China market in anticipation of the Summer 2024 traffic season,' said the USDOT.
More than 150 weekly round-trip passenger flights were allowed by each side before restrictions were imposed in early 2020 due to Covid, but until August 2023, chinese and US carriers could each fly only 12 a week between the two countries.
The number rose on September 1 to 18 weekly round-trips and then to 24 per week starting October. 29. The USDOT approved 35 for Chinese carriers in November.
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