The number of flights between the U.S. and China has barely recovered since the end of the pandemic.
A China Southern airplane. Credit: Kevin Chung via Flickr
It’s been over half a year since China dropped its zero-Covid policy and reopened its borders, but U.S.-China air travel is a long way from bouncing back. Weekly flights between the world’s two biggest economies remain down around 95 percent from pre-pandemic levels.
Geopolitics is getting in the way of a recovery. Both the U.S. and China have imposed caps on the number of permitted weekly flights by airlines from each others’ countries, although the Biden administration approved a mode
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