{"id":7397,"date":"2020-01-28T18:13:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T00:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=7397"},"modified":"2020-01-28T18:13:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T00:13:24","slug":"united-airlines-suspends-some-flights-to-china-as-demand-drops-over-virus-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=7397","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines Suspends Some Flights to China as Demand Drops Over Virus Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CHICAGO (Reuters) &#8211; United Airlines Holdings Inc &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/UAL?p=UAL&amp;.tsrc=fin-srch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"UAL (opens in a new tab)\">UAL<\/a>> said on Tuesday it was suspending some flights between the United States and Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai between Feb. 1 and Feb. 8 due to a &#8220;significant decline in demand&#8221; as the new coronavirus spreads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We will continue to monitor the situation as it develops and will adjust our schedule as needed,&#8221; United said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China has killed 106 people in the Asian country and spread across the world, rattling financial markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>United&#8217;s suspension affects a total of 24 flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other two U.S. airlines that fly to China, Delta Air Lines Inc &lt;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"DAL (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/DAL?p=DAL\" target=\"_blank\">DAL<\/a>> and American Airlines Group Inc &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/AAL?p=AAL&amp;.tsrc=fin-srch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"AAL (opens in a new tab)\">AAL<\/a>>, said they had not reduced their flights at this time but were closely monitoring the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Reporting by Tracy Rucinski; Editing by Chris Reese and Bill Berkrot)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1023\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/9206317943_cc0cc0238f_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/9206317943_cc0cc0238f_b.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/9206317943_cc0cc0238f_b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/9206317943_cc0cc0238f_b-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines Holdings Inc <UAL> said on Tuesday it was suspending some flights between the United States and Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai between Feb. 1 and Feb. 8 due to a <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,3965,7890,89,5637,6117,8222,5992,5878,2203,4957,5676,1397,868],"tags":[6518,8887,539,420,118,43,3589,160,728,82,446,10030,4921,5258,246,2493,9088,10117,10118,3165,2514,482,745,807,740,2725,3921,540,4747,9597,6278,9970,412,10122,4544,10123,1288,4256,727,7755,10121,8907,10119,3076,10120,4411,1691,1658,631,444,10116,2755,10029],"class_list":["post-7397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-news","category-airport-news","category-asia-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-china-news","category-consumer-news","category-economic-news","category-environmental-news","category-finance-news","category-global-politics","category-international-news","category-stock-news","category-transportation-news","tag-across","tag-adjust","tag-air","tag-airline","tag-airlines","tag-american-airlines","tag-asian","tag-aviation","tag-beijing","tag-chicago","tag-china","tag-coronavirus","tag-country","tag-decline","tag-delta","tag-demand","tag-develops","tag-drops","tag-fear","tag-february","tag-financial","tag-flights","tag-group","tag-holdings","tag-hong-kong","tag-illinois","tag-killed","tag-lines","tag-markets","tag-medical","tag-monitor","tag-monitoring","tag-news","tag-originated","tag-people","tag-rattling","tag-reuters","tag-schedule","tag-shanghai","tag-significant","tag-situation","tag-some","tag-spread","tag-states","tag-suspending","tag-suspends","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-u-s","tag-united","tag-virus","tag-world","tag-wuhan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7399,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions\/7399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}