Washington accuses Beijing of not letting US airlines resume flights in China

Amidst coronavirus pandemic, US government has accused Chinese government of making it extremely difficult for its airlines to resume services in China. According to reports, US authorities have ordered four Chinese air carriers to file flight schedules with US government. US President Donald Trump is yet to put restrictions on China but has said that talks with Chinese officials have failed to yield any positive results.

Pandemic cause a drastic fall in Flights

According to reports, January 31 onwards, US government denied entry to most n-US citizens that h been in China in previous 14 days but did t put any restrictions on Chinese flights. ditionally, major US carriers decided to voluntarily suspend passenger flights to China in month of February. During height of pandemic, number of weekly scheduled flights fell from 325 in January to 20 in mid-February.

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As per reports, Civil Aviation Authority of China (CAAC) in late March said that Chinese airlines could maintain just one weekly passenger flight on one route to any given country and also ded that carriers could t fly more planes than number of flights that were flying on March 12. problem arises due to fact that major US airlines h alrey halted all passenger flights by March 12. This order by CAAC prevents US carriers from flying to China. According to reports, CAAC has hinted that y are looking into making amendments but claim that once-weekly service on one route to China will remain.

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dely coronavirus has w claimed 338,480 lives worldwide as of May 23. According to tally by an international news ncy, pandemic has infected at least 5,229,441 people. While virus first originated in China late last year, China has mand to almost eliminate virus and is in process to resuming rmal life and easing restrictions. On or hand, United States has become a hotbed for virus and currently has most virus cases in world.

(Representative Im)