Since the outbreak and massive spread of coronavirus, numerous sectors within the global economy have been greatly affected and air travel has not been left behind with many airlines announcing that they have cancelled flights to and from affected China.
Reports from global economists indicate that airlines could lose up to 502 billion shillings in revenue due to flight cancellations in and out of China as the world struggles to fight the coronavirus outbreak.
Commercial flight cancellations due to the coronavirus outbreak began in January and were limited primarily to Wuhan, a central China metropolis where the virus was first detected.
Service suspensions quickly expanded across China—one of the world’s busiest travel markets. Major carriers like Delta, American Airlines, Qatar Airways and Air France went so far as to suspend all flights to mainland China, while dozens more stopped flying to some of its biggest cities.
About 70 airlines have so far cancelled their flights to China and some other parts of the Asian continent while 50 airlines have reduced their operations to the Corona-infested country resulting in huge losses in revenue.
Here is the list of the airlines that have cancelled flights to China over the coronavirus outbreak:
- Air Canada
- American Airlines
- Delta
- United Airlines
- Air India
- Air Seoul
- AirAsia
- All Nippon Airways
- Asiana Airlines
- Bamboo Airways
- Cathay Dragon
- Cathay Pacific
- Cebu Pacific
- China Airlines – Flights to and from Wuhan
- Eastar Jet
- HK Express
- Hong Kong Airlines
- IndiGo
- Japan Airlines
- Jeju Air
- Jetstar Japan
- Jetstar Pacific
- Korean Air
- Mandarin Airlines
- Myanmar Airways International
- Pakistan International Airlines
- Peach Aviation
- Philippine Airlines
- Scoot
- SilkAir
- SriLankan Airlines
- Thai Airways
- Thai Lion Air
- Turkmenistan Airlines
- T’way Air
- VietJet Air
- Vietnam Airlines
- EgyptAir
- El Al
- Emirates
- Etihad Airways
- Qatar Airways
- Saudia
- Turkish Airlines
- Air France
- Austrian Airlines
- British Airways
- Finnair
- Iberia
- KLM
- LOT Polish Airlines
- Lufthansa
- Neos
- SAS
- Ukraine International Airlines
- Virgin Atlantic
- Ethiopian Airlines
- Kenya Airways
- Royal Air Maroc
- RwandAir
- Air New Zealand
- Qantas Airways
- Virgin Australia
Source: Bloomberg
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