{"id":124562,"date":"2022-01-16T00:39:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T00:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=124562"},"modified":"2022-01-16T00:39:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T00:39:30","slug":"lockdown-measures-spark-public-outrage-in-xian-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/lockdown-measures-spark-public-outrage-in-xian-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown measures spark public outrage in Xi&#39;an, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>Beijing (CNN Business)<\/cite>People trying to fly from the United States to China may soon be confronted with an unthinkable scenario: Starting next week, there are likely to be no commercial flights bound for the country as Beijing tries to keep coronavirus infections out ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics. <\/p>\n<p>Beginning January 19 and continuing for at least two weeks, all flights from the United States to China have either been canceled or are likely to be suspended because of Chinese aviation regulations, according to CNN Business research of government announcements and published flight schedules. As of Friday, only two <span>United Airlines<\/span> <span>(<span>UAL<\/span>)<\/span> flights still appeared eligible to operate for that period.<br \/>\nThe Beijing Winter Games open on February 4, and participants are mostly taking special flights restricted to people with OIympics credentials as part of a strict bubble that authorities are implementing around the event. <\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>Since June, the Civil Aviation Administration of China has applied a so-called &#8220;circuit-breaker&#8221; rule to international flights. That rule means that a flight is automatically suspended for two weeks if five or more passengers test positive upon landing in China. If 10 or more passengers test positive, the suspension period increases.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>From December 24 to January 12, more than a third of the 9,356 international flights scheduled to depart for China \u2014 already a fraction of pre-pandemic levels \u2014 were canceled, according to data from Umetrip, an app developed by Chinese state-owned aviation industry IT provider TravelSky. <\/p>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Delta turned flight around mid-air, saying China&amp;#39;s new Covid cleaning rules are unworkable\" class=\"media__image\" src=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/211228070024-shanghai-pudong-international-airport-082321-file-restricted-large-169.jpg\"><\/noscript><br \/>\nDuring this period, a growing number of passengers on flights from the United States \u2014 operated by both US and Chinese carriers \u2014 tested positive upon arrival in China, triggering a wave of cancellations just ahead of the Olympics and the Lunar New Year, the most important holiday in China.<br \/>\nThree US carriers \u2014 <span>United<\/span> <span>(<span>UAL<\/span>)<\/span>, <span>Delta<\/span> <span>(<span>DAL<\/span>)<\/span> and <span>American Airlines<\/span> <span>(<span>AAL<\/span>)<\/span> \u2014 operate 10 flights per week into Shanghai, China&#8217;s biggest city, where a steady rise of Covid cases among international arrivals has seen local officials under growing pressure to tighten containment measures.<strong> <\/strong>The city on Thursday recorded five new cases, all linked to a resident who had recently returned from the United States.<br \/>\n&#8220;US airlines are concerned about the implications of a disruption and are continuing to assess the impact to operations,&#8221; said Airlines for America, a Washington-based trade group that represents major US carriers, in a statement Thursday. &#8220;We are in communication with the US and Chinese governments to identify a path forward that minimizes impact to travelers.&#8221;<br \/>\nCNN Business has sought comment from the US Department of Transportation, which has the authority to suspend the eight weekly US flights operated by four Chinese airlines.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>China largely sealed off its borders in March 2020 and has continued to stick to its strict zero-Covid policy. Flights to and from China\u2014 the world&#8217;s second-biggest air travel market after the United States \u2014 have been drastically cut back, even as international travel has begun to rebound in other parts of the globe.<br \/>\nLast month, a Delta flight from Seattle to Shanghai turned around midair because of a change in cleaning procedures at the Chinese airport that &#8220;significantly extended ground time and are not operationally viable,&#8221; according to the airline. Chinese officials disputed the account, urging the carrier to &#8220;protect customers&#8217; legitimate rights.&#8221;<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/14\/business\/us-china-flights-olympics-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing (CNN Business)People trying to fly from the United States to China may soon be confronted with an unthinkable scenario: Starting next week, there are [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":124561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lockdown measures spark public outrage in Xi&#039;an, China - Fin2me<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/lockdown-measures-spark-public-outrage-in-xian-china\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lockdown measures spark public outrage in Xi&#039;an, China - 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