BEIJING - China is reopening its borders that have been largely shut for the last three years, scrapping quarantine requirements for inbound travellers and removing restrictions on international flights. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BEIJING - China is reopening its borders that have been largely shut for the last three years, scrapping quarantine requirements for inbound travellers and removing restrictions on international flights.In a very optimistic scenario, international flights to and from China will return to frequencies not seen since 2019 by this northern hemisphere summer at the earliest, several civil aviation experts told Caixin.
However, from Sunday, the number of imported cases infected with new strains is expected to accelerate, and experts say that the possibility of a new domestic outbreak cannot be ruled out. In the final week of December, the variant accounted for over 40 per cent of the new infections in the US, according to data from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. This variant is so contagious that 80 per cent of Americans who’ve already been infected with a previous strain of Covid are likely to catch it again, experts say.
Since it takes time for airports to restore their capacity to adequately handle passenger security checks and other protocols, the Civil Aviation Administration of China has said it hopes that the industry will take its time and gradually get back up to speed and not resume too many international routes all at once.
The total accumulated profit of China’s civil aviation industry from 2015 to 2019 was about 160.4 billion yuan , according to data from the CAAC. By comparison, the industry lost nearly twice as much during the three years of the pandemic. In the first three quarters of 2022, the three biggest state-owned airlines reported a total net loss of 73.8 billion yuan, according to Caixin calculations based on their quarterly reports.
It’s a big challenge for pilots, both mentally and technically, to resume international flights, said Han Tao, a researcher at the China Air Transport Association, a non-profit national trade organization comprising primarily air carriers. Additionally, as international flight attendants need to have additional qualifications and training and some long-distance international flights also need more than one shift of attendants, “even if airlines are approved to resume more international flights, they don’t have enough staff,” Han said.
The relaunch of large-scale group tours requires diplomatic negotiations with destination countries and is expected to start with South-east Asian countries, which are the biggest destinations for Chinese tourists, said Cheng Shaogong, chief researcher at the Tongcheng Research Institute. The US has also started requiring all travellers from China to show a negative Covid test results no more than two days before flying to the country.
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