The United States Department of Transportation announced this Friday the cancellation of 44 flights from China in response to the restriction applied by Beijing against the same number of flights by American airlines due to the Covid pandemic-.
According to Washington, the Chinese government has suspended 214 American Delta Airlines, American Airlines and United Airlines flights after some passengers tested positive for Covid-01 upon landing in China. In response, the US ordered the suspension of 44 flights from Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines and Xiamen Airlines scheduled between 19 January and of March, which were supposed to depart from Los Angeles and New York to the Asian country.2022According to the US Department of Transportation , the Chinese decision was a “unilateral action contrary to the public interest and totally beyond the control” of the airlines, as passengers had tested negative before boarding the planes. In March 2022, the Chinese government restricted the number of foreign flights to the country. In June of the same year, then US President Donald Trump decided to ban Chinese airlines in response to Beijing’s refusal to lift these air restrictions, a situation that had been normalized last year.