China's international flight suspensions leave travellers stranded, hurt businesses

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BEIJING/SYDNEY — When Mr Dwight Law's father died in November, the Shanghai-based US expat flew back to Kansas, leaving his wife and dog behind in China while he attended to matters relating to his father's death.

MrLaw, who runs an architecture and design firm, has lived in Shanghai for 20 years and had expected to return last week.

Even before the latest flight cancellations, international capacity to and from China was running at just two per cent of pre-Covid levels as the country sticks to a strict zero-Covid policy of stamping out all cases while other parts of world open up. That was the most in a month since it introduced a policy of suspending flights when positive cases were found in June 2020.

China now requires passengers to have started costly Covid-19 tests seven days before boarding in the departure city of their direct flight into China. That creates a headache for travellers like Mr Law who are not based in US cities with direct flights.

 

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