{"id":12295,"date":"2025-11-17T17:46:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T09:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=12295"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T09:46:37","slug":"491000-japan-bound-air-tickets-cancelled-as-china-warns-people-to-avoid-travel-amid-spat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=12295","title":{"rendered":"491,000 Japan-bound air tickets cancelled as China warns people to avoid travel amid spat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/11\/17\/940da7c0-3b70-4190-91b1-d14fbeecfac7_2c663090.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Chinese airlines have recorded about 491,000 cancellations of tickets to Japan since Saturday \u2013 roughly 32 per cent of their total bookings to the typically popular destination \u2013 after <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Beijing advised citizens<\/span> to avoid travelling there amid a diplomatic spat, according to a veteran aviation analyst.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The percentage of flights affected skyrocketed to 82.14 per cent on Sunday and 75.6 per cent on Monday, according to independent analyst Li Hanming, citing his research data covering all mainland China-based airlines.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe flight-ticket cancellations [on Sunday] were 27 times that of new bookings, which shows safety concerns are the dominating factor for travel,\u201d he said, adding that he had not seen cancellations on such a scale since early in 2020, as Covid-19 infections surged at the tail end of the Lunar New Year travel period.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The spread of the coronavirus resulted in flight capacity into and out of China falling \u201csharply\u201d around the holiday that year, according to an analysis posted on the World Economic Forum website. A 71 per cent capacity drop on February 17, 2020, over the same date in 2019 was China\u2019s sharpest ever, it said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On Friday, after Beijing\u2019s warning to Chinese travellers, airlines offered full refunds for flights to Japan.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">China-Japan <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">tensions had escalated<\/span> over Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi\u2019s suggestion on November 7 that Tokyo could deploy its military forces in the event of a conflict in the Taiwan Strait.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">PLA Daily, the People\u2019s Liberation Army\u2019s official mouthpiece, <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">warned on Sunday<\/span> that Japan risked turning the entire country into a battlefield if it intervened militarily in the Taiwan Strait.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/global-economy\/article\/3333106\/491000-japan-bound-air-tickets-cancelled-china-warns-people-avoid-travel-amid-spat?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese airlines have recorded about 491,000 cancellations of tickets to Japan since Saturday \u2013 roughly 32 per cent of their total bookings to the typically&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[364,2839,9783,832,9782,121,9784,3594,151,6865],"class_list":["post-12295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-air","tag-avoid","tag-cancelled","tag-china","tag-japanbound","tag-people","tag-spat","tag-tickets","tag-travel","tag-warns","wpcat-4840-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}