Flight cancellations continue to disrupt travel between China and Japan into the holiday season with flights across 46 routes, including to popular tourism destinations, cancelled over the next two weeks amid deepening tensions between the two countries.
Flight Manager, an app developed by Shenzhen-based Huo Li Tian Hui Technology, shows that there will be no flights on 46 air routes between the two neighbours for the next two weeks, affecting 38 airports in both countries.
The widespread cancellations overlapped with the New Year public holiday in China from January 1 to 3.
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According to information gathered by the South China Morning Post, all the cancelled flights across the 46 routes were operated by Chinese carriers and involve most of the country’s major airlines, including Air China, China Eastern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Xiamen Airlines and Sichuan Airlines.
Osaka and Nagoya are heavily affected Japanese destinations, with half the 46 routes linking China’s second- and third-tier cities – such as Shenyang, Chongqing and Wuhan – to major Japanese tourism hubs.
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Direct flights between Shanghai and smaller Japanese cities – including flights to Nagasaki, Niigata and Kagoshima – have also been cancelled for the next two weeks.