China to allow limited US passenger flights


Taken in 2018, an American Airlines Boeing 787 and a Delta Airlines Airbus A350 aircraft waiting to take off at Beijing's airport. China will be allowing selected US passenger flights to resume. – AFP pic, June 4, 2020.

CHINA today said it will allow foreign airlines currently blocked from operating in the country over coronavirus concerns to resume limited flights, lifting a de facto ban on US carriers.

The move by China’s civil aviation authority comes after Washington ordered the suspension of all flights by Chinese airlines into and out of the US from June 16 in retaliation against Beijing’s restrictions on American and foreign carriers.


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