The United States approves China to increase the increasing class to the United States

(Washington/Shanghai Comprehensive News) The Ministry of Transport announced on Monday, local time, that starting from March 31, the number of Chinese airlines can be performed from 35 to 50 from 35 per week.It will restore the market to about one -third of the level before the epidemic.

Comprehensive Reuters and First Financial Network reported that the US Department of Transportation on Monday (February 26) stated that the move was an important step in the US -China market as expected to be in the summer of 2024.

This adjustment is the fifth additional increase in the restrictions on the implementation of the China -US direct flight.According to the principle of peering, U.S. Airlines will also be allowed to perform up to 50 Sino -US round -trip flights per week, that is, the regular direct flight passenger flights in China and the United States are expected to increase to 100 per week.

Before the outbreak of the crown disease in early 2020, China and the United States allowed more than 150 round -trip flights per week.After China's relaxation of international flight restrictions last year, the recovery of China -US routes was still slow. Until August last year, the Sino -US Airlines could only operate 12 flights between the two countries every week.

At the beginning of September last year, the round -trip flights between China and the United States rose to 18 per week, and the end of October rose to 24 per week.In November last year, the US Department of Transport approved China to travel to and from the United States every week.

At present, the actual number of flights in China and the United States is 66 flights per week, of which 35 Chinese airlines are flying and 31 U.S. airlines fly, that is, the US airline company has not used the batch quota.

China Civil Aviation domestic passenger routes quickly recovered last year, but the recovery of international routes was relatively backward.At the beginning of this year, the China Civil Aviation Work Conference proposed that the international passenger market will be resumed in 2024, and it is expected to return to about 80%before the end of the year.