Over 25,000 China flights axed as virus panic creates disruption


  • China
  • Monday, 03 Feb 2020

SINGAPORE: More than 25,000 flights to, from and within China will be cancelled this week as more than two dozen airlines suspend services to the country because of the coronavirus outbreak, leading to an unprecedented shakeup in the world’s second-largest aviation market.

International capacity will fall by 4.4 million seats a week, with Lion Air, Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Turkish Airlines cutting flights to China, resulting in the "most dramatic change in schedule” in such a short time, according to OAG Aviation Worldwide Ltd.

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