China cancels all flights on 49 routes to Japan

FILE PHOTO: China Eastern Airlines Corp. aircraft at the Hongqiao International Airport in Shanghai, China, on Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. In January, the cancellation rate for flights from Chinese mainland to Japan stood at 47.2 per cent. - Bloomberg

BEIJING: All scheduled flights on 49 air routes between China and Japan have been cancelled for February, flight data showed on Jan 26, as Chinese airlines extended special ticket change and refund policies for Japan-related travel.

Data from flight information platform Flight Master showed that as of Jan 26, 49 China-Japan routes had cancelled all flights scheduled for February, an increase from January.