Posted on 03/18/2020 8:03:19 PM PDT by dynachrome
While most U.S. airlines are cutting flights to historically low numbers because of the coronavirus pandemic, three mainland Chinese carriers plan to resume non-stop flights to San Francisco International Airport this month, a move SFO officials said “marks a hopeful change in direction.”
The resumption of flights is one of several early signs that the worst could be over in China, meaning the crisis will eventually come to an end here, too.
China Eastern will resume a daily non-stop flight this month between its hub in Shanghai and San Francisco using a Boeing 777-300ER jet. Flights are expected to start on Saturday, March 28
Strangely, flights were not yet available for booking at the time of this writing on the airline’s North America website.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
ALMOST fake news.
If you read deep into the article, the Trump administration flight ban remains in effect; this will only affect a small number of returning passengers. IOW, stranded nationals get to go home and face another round of quarantine there.
Below is what comes up when clicking on your link.
“Sorry, the itinerary you selected is no longer available”
Reading the article before posting (reacting?) is important...thanks for the excerpt.
(Thank you very much, anyhoo.)
Below is what comes up when clicking on your link.
“Sorry, the itinerary you selected is no longer available”
Sort of like trying to order face masks or hand sanitizer on Amazon.
I have to admit the people in the line don’t look that sick... more like waiting to get a box of free food. It’s a piece of information. Maybe signifying noting..
We’re about to find out. Should be about a week out at this point.
“stranded nationals”
OK, then, as long as they are truly Americans and not dual citizen Chinese types.
LOL!
WTH?
Do their planes look like large wooden badgers?
Wait, what? We are told to hunker down in our homes and are afraid to go to work each day yet our gov’t is allowing Chinese in, even while they are patting themselves on the back publicly for closing down flights from China early? This does not compute.
ah it’s okay then, i guess...
we closed our border to Canada to non-essential travel and yet China is ok???
>>Flights are expected to start on Saturday, March 28
good luck with that. not
Who made this determination? them obviously, no we are closed for business we will let you know when we re assess your responsibility in all this.
And the flubros.
What, so they can bring over a full flight but they go back empty? That’s such a brilliant idea for them and they never have to fire a shot.
“Sorry, the itinerary you selected is no longer available”
Worked again for me. You can go to Air China’s site and book it.
April 2: SFO - PEK
April 8: PEK - LAX
You can get non-stops in both directions. Very few flights, maybe just one per day in each direction with Air China from the West Coast, but they never stopped running.
No longer cheap - now it’s $3,300. Used to be under $1,000 during good times.
“Wait, what? We are told to hunker down in our homes and are afraid to go to work each day yet our gov’t is allowing Chinese in, even while they are patting themselves on the back publicly for closing down flights from China early? This does not compute.”
Maybe no one bothered to tell Trump?
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