China's airlines told not to axe global flights as thousands cut

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China's airlines told not to axe global flights as thousands cut

By Brenda Goh and Zoey Zhang

 

Passengers wear protective masks at Sheremetyevo International Airport outside Moscow, Russia February 4, 2020. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

 

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's civil aviation authority has urged domestic carriers to continue flying international routes as they consider cuts in response to a drop in demand due to the coronavirus outbreak, state news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday.

 

Airline capacity is being axed in the world's second largest aviation market with "the most dramatic change in schedules", OAG Aviation Worldwide Ltd said, adding that more than 25,000 flights to, from or within China will be canceled this week.

 

The coronavirus epidemic, which has killed more than 400 people in China, has resulted in bans or restrictions on travel to and from China imposed by countries including Singapore and Italy. The World Health Organization's director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, had said travel bans were unnecessary.

 

The Civil Aviation Administration of China's appeal to the country's airlines was reported on Xinhua's account on Chinese messaging app Weibo.

 

Data from aviation statistics provider VariFlight showed 41 Chinese carriers canceled nearly two-thirds of the 16,623 planned flights for Tuesday as of 10:30 a.m. Beijing time (0230 GMT).

 

In addition, 10 regional airlines from Hong Kong and Taiwan had canceled 162 flights, while 37 airlines from other countries canceled 168 flights on the same day, VariFlight said.

 

It also said that some 90,000 flights were canceled between Jan. 10 and Feb. 3, and that about 10,000 planned flights on average have been scrapped each day since the start of February.

 

The coronavirus outbreak has stopped millions of Chinese people from traveling, with the number of trips over this year's Lunar New Year break down 30% to 1.3 billion compared to last year, Ministry of Transportation data showed.

 

Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific <0293.HK> plans to cut around 30% of its capacity over the next two months, including around 90% of its flights to mainland China, as it grapples with the epidemic, its CEO said on Tuesday.

 

(Reporting by Brenda Goh and Zoey Zhang; Editing by Ryan Woo, Clarence Fernandez and Alexander Smith)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-02-05

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[NCC1701A]

Right now:

 

https://www.flightradar24.com/32.29,114.82/5

 

 

[DrTuner]

Cut them all, now.

[yogavnture]

all because the chinese treat wild creatures poorly........this is gonna do long term damage to china .  they might never recover fully from this.  now a bird flu is in china.   half the pigs have been culled............will china ever learn that a rhino horn dont make penis work?

[White Christmas13]

19 minutes ago, yogavnture said:

all because the chinese treat wild creatures poorly........this is gonna do long term damage to china .  they might never recover fully from this.  now a bird flu is in china.   half the pigs have been culled............will china ever learn that a rhino horn dont make penis work?

It is the swine flu and it is coming from China, now in Indonesia ( Bali ) due to contaminated

pork imports from China.

[timendres]

19 hours ago, webfact said:

The World Health Organization's director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, had said travel bans were unnecessary.

Then I recommend that Mr. Ghebreyesus get on some of these flights that he insists do not need to be banned. Without wearing a mask. And shake the hands of all those people his is supposed to be protecting.

[daveAustin]

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more than 25,000 flights to, from or within China will be canceled this week

Greta will be happy.

[URMySunshine]

When you read something like this then you can be forgiven thinking that China has been covertly attacked and that WW3 has just begun.

 

The workshop of the world is closed. China is on a total-war footing. The Communist Party has evoked the ‘spirit of 1937’ and mobilized all the instruments of its totalitarian surveillance system to fight both the Coronavirus, and the truth. Make GDP forecasts if you dare. As of this week two-thirds of the Chinese economy remains shut. Over 80pc of its manufacturing industry is closed, rising to 90pc for exporters.Close China-watchers - and some very sharp scientists - suspect that this latest flurry of optimism is just a lull before the thunderstorm.

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/02/05/chinas-coronavirus-not-remotely-control-world-economy-mounting2/

[overherebc]

6 hours ago, daveAustin said:

Greta will be happy.

Only if her Dad tells her to be.

[mtls2005]

Fly everyone from China to Thailand. The TG can fly them onward. Win-win.

 

What could go wrong?

 

 

And Vassal statehood is assured.

 

 

 

 

[steve187]

On 2/5/2020 at 10:50 AM, NCC1701A said:

Right now:

 

https://www.flightradar24.com/32.29,114.82/5

 

 

but take out Hong Kong, Korea and Japan, which is the bulk of the traffic on the right, and the ones over Myanmar that are over flying China, there are not really many left that are in or out of china

[URMySunshine]

Things look to be very bad and getting worse.

 

 

[yogavnture]

i secretly wish the virus would hit one of the islands inhabitants that china stole from other asia countries in the sea...........china would get no help for that one

[Tayaout]

On 2/5/2020 at 1:11 PM, White Christmas13 said:

It is the swine flu and it is coming from China, now in Indonesia ( Bali ) due to contaminated

pork imports from China.

It's African swine flu and like the name suggest it did not originate from China. African swine flu is pig only while swine flu is also transmissible to human. 

 

BTW African swine flu is now at the border with Germany. It is spread via wild boar to factory pig. 

[englishoak]

Reports coming in of roadblocks around Shenzhen, If it goes into wuhan lockdown things just got a lot worse. Its THE center for global electronics  and right next door to HK. 

 

 

[URMySunshine]

1 hour ago, englishoak said:

Reports coming in of roadblocks around Shenzhen, If it goes into wuhan lockdown things just got a lot worse. Its THE center for global electronics  and right next door to HK. 

 

 

On Thai TV today was a news item about disruption to supply chains in Rayong for factories reliant on just in time supplies from China and that they would have to close and stop production if China doesn't come back on line real soon. On our morning walk around Jomtien today popped into the mouldering old Welcome Jomtien Beach Hotel a big old <deleted> normal thronging with Chinese tour buses. Nothing , zilch about 3 people in their cavernous breakfast room that could hold hundreds. 

[metisdead]

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