This content was published on December 27, 2021 – 09:46
Beijing, Dec 27 (EFE) .- Almost 2,000 flights have been canceled and another 2,700 accumulate delays this Monday, hundreds of them with origin or destination in airports in China, whose authorities have not indicated if it is due to the application of new measures of sanitary control or revealed other reasons at the moment.
The specialized portal FlightAware indicates that cancellations amount to 1,954 (almost a third of them in the United States) and delays, 2,693.
By airlines, the two most affected are China Eastern, with 400 operations canceled and 62 delays, and Air China, which has canceled 193 flights and has another 23 delayed, followed by Skywest, Lion Air and United.
Also Chinese Shenzhen Airlines has suspended 72 operations and accumulates delays in 17.
By origin, the airport that accumulates the most cancellations is the international one in Jakarta (72), with the Chinese from Beijing Capital (71), Shenzhen Bao’an (46) and Shanghai Pudong (45) next, although they are also in the It lists, among others, those of Kunming (40), Nanjing (40), Guangzhou (38), Beijing Daxing (32) and that of the city of Xi’an (29), the epicenter of the latest outbreak of the coronavirus in China.
In cancellations by destination, the first place is occupied by flights to the Beijing Capital airport (71), followed by those from Jakarta (70), the United States from Seattle-Tacoma (58), the one from Shanghai Pudong (45), Shenzhen ( 43), Kunming (41) and Nanjing (40).
The appearance of the new omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has resulted in an increase in containment measures and security protocols in most countries, including in some cases border closures or tightening of entry requirements, which has had a strong impact on air transport.
In the case of China, which maintains a zero tolerance policy with the virus and its armored borders, the controls, quarantines and entry requirements into the country were already draconian and have become more acute with the proximity of the Beijing Winter Olympics, that will begin next February.
However, neither the country’s transport authorities nor the official media have released any information about changes in protocols or cancellation of flights for now, with the exception of operations at the Xian central airport, whose 13 million inhabitants have been strictly confined. since Thursday for a regrowth.
The Asian country has not confirmed any local case of omicron, but it has confirmed several infections of this variant “imported” from other countries.
According to official data, China has accumulated 101,277 positives of the new coronavirus and 4,636 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. EFE
lcl / vec / jgb
© EFE 2021. The redistribution and redistribution of all or part of the contents of Efe’s services is expressly prohibited, without the prior and express consent of Agencia EFE SA
–
