![]() But American never flew to China Southern’s home in Guangzhou, and in 2019 wrote down the value of its investment by a quarter.įlying between the U.S. Naturally, then, American Airlines followed Delta and bought a stake in China Southern. carriers tried to grab those, even when they didn’t have great flying opportunities, in case they were useful in the future and to block competitors.ĭelta had purchased a stake in China Eastern and made real progress aligning with them. and China (and as a result, no joint ventures permitted either) the Department of Transportation handed out allowable frequencies. Since there’s no Open Skies treaty between the U.S. airlines had been heavily committed to China, but they too were squatting routes. Hawaiian Airlines dropped Honolulu – Beijing. United dropped San Francisco – Xi’an and San Francisco – Hangzhou. American dropped LA to Beijing and Shanghai and planned to move its Shanghai service to Seattle. That meant very low fares.Īmerican Airlines dropped its Chicago to Beijing and Shanghai flights in 2018. to squat routes (China won’t allow more than one of its airlines to fly a given route, so Chinese carriers would start a route to block others from getting there first.) In the 15 years leading up to the pandemic the number of flights between the U.S. Before the pandemic these flights weren’t always profitable.China imposed strict limits on flights from the U.S., ostensibly as part of its Covid protocols.Many people still aren’t allowed to go there. An unknown seven figure number of people died. China has only just passed its major virus wave after pulling the band aid off of Zero Covid.Being a billionaire in China has similar excess mortality as billionaires in Russia. Indeed, opportunities for the Chinese to do business in China are more limited now than they were earlier in Xi Jinping’s time in power. Tensions have been mounting between China and the U.S., and opportunities to do business there are more limited.It’s no surprise that flight has come back in a limited way. Apple was the primary customer for United’s San Francisco – Shanghai service. Corporate travel is down, and that was driving airline desire to fly there.So why haven’t flights to China returned faster? So we’re in a really good spot, able to offer the non-stop service, demand is coming back in China, our flights are full we’re doing very well. That matches now United’s and Delta’s allocation and matches the Chinese carriers as well. We have been working with the APA on acceptable hotel accommodations there, and we found a resolution to that.Īnd furthermore, we’ve actually been able to increase our non-stop flights from DFW from twice a week to four times a week. ![]() government that we can now operate non-stop to China so no more stop in Seoul. Through the last few weeks…we’ve worked out an agreement with the Chinese government and the U.S. Brian Znotins, the American Airlines Vice President of Network Planning, shared in an employee ‘Crew News’ meeting with pilots last week that they’ll be able to serve Dallas Fort Worth – Shanghai four times per week starting in March and running through summer and that this will no longer require a stop in Seoul, a procedure put in place to avoid crew being quarantined on arrival.įor.well over a year we were operating one a one-stop basis via Seoul, so that we could position our crews through Seoul and not have them stay over in Shanghai. In addition to flights between major US cities and Beijing, Shanghai, and Chengdu, Hainan Airlines flew Changsha–Los Angeles as well as Chongqing–Los Angeles and New York Sichuan Airliens flew Hangzhou-Los Angeles and Jinan-Los Angeles and Xiamen Airlines flew Shenzhen–Seattle, Fuzhou–New York, and Qingdao–Los Angeles. That’s a huge contrast to the service that existed prior to the pandemic. China Eastern is operating 8 New York JFK – Shanghai flights.Xiamen Airlines is operating 8 Los Angeles – Xiamen flights.China Southern is operating 4 Los Angeles – Guangzhou and 4 New York JFK – Guangzhou flights.Air China is operating 4 Los Angeles – Beijing and 4 Los Angeles – Shenzhen flights.United is operating 16 San Francisco – Shanghai flights.That’s for the entire month, according to schedule data from Cirium Diio Mi. This month the number of non-stop commercial flights between the U.S.
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