Air China travel tips

Chinese airlines will be the early winners of the country’s international reopening, analysts say, having kept most widebody planes and staff ready while foreign carriers struggle with capacity constraints after previous border openings.

Passengers on an Air China flight were evacuated upon landing in Singapore after one of the aircraft’s engines caught fire, leading to a three-hour closure of Changi Airport on Sunday.

China’s three largest airlines remained in the red in the second quarter, although losses narrowed significantly from the previous three months as a recovery in the domestic aviation market gathered pace.

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China’s three largest airlines reported narrower losses in the first quarter, with domestic and international travel picking up after the country dropped its strict Covid restrictions at the end of last year and reopened its borders.

Chinese airlines have upped the number of weekly flights to Spain by more than five times since the end of China’s zero-COVID policy in December, filling most of the gap left by European rivals due to a ban on flying over Russia.

The U.S. and China will approve twice the number of passenger flights currently permitted for air carriers to fly between the two countries, the Biden administration said on Friday, in a rare sign of cooperation between the world’s largest two economies.