Airlines Cancel More Than 200 Flights Over Tensions Between China and Taiwan

Jan. 30, 2018
The moves disrupt the plans of thousands of passengers ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, a key travel period in the region.

Chinese airlines have canceled hundreds of flights to and from Taiwan as a dispute over aviation routes intensifies.

The moves disrupt the plans of thousands of passengers ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, a key travel period in the region.

Two major carriers, China Eastern Airlines (CEA) and Xiamen Airlines, said Tuesday that they had called off the flights because Taiwan refused to approve them. The flights had been scheduled in addition to the airlines' regular Taiwan services in order to cope with the high demand for travel around the Lunar New Year holiday, which starts next month.

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Alejandro A. Alvarez/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS