{"id":81582,"date":"2026-09-02T17:05:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=81582"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:05:02","slug":"china-cuts-thousands-of-japan-flights-as-strained-ties-send-travellers-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=81582","title":{"rendered":"China cuts thousands of Japan flights as strained ties send travellers elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/09\/02\/86b81983-98d1-4efa-b4a9-06c2c18fa114_faf67a2c.jpg?itok=oNb-22u_&amp;v=1788325281\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Thousands of scheduled flights from mainland China to Japan were scrapped during a record-breaking summer travel season for domestic carriers, as travellers pivoted to other Asian destinations amid strained diplomatic ties.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A total of 2,312 flights were cancelled in July and August, accounting for 30.7 per cent of scheduled flights, according to aviation data provider Flight Master DAST. July saw 1,195 cancellations, or 31.4 per cent of scheduled flights.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Japan dropped out of the top three international destinations for mainland departures during the July-August period, ranking behind <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">South Korea<\/span>, Thailand and <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Malaysia<\/span>, according to Flight Master.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Li Hanming, an independent aviation analyst, said 780 China-Japan flights were cancelled in September, based on announcements that no tickets were available. He said the cancellations covered between 150 and 200 routes.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The pullback contrasted sharply with a record-breaking summer for China\u2019s aviation sector, as airlines carried more passengers while keeping fares low to stimulate demand.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Mainland airlines transported 153.64 million passenger trips between July 1 and Monday, a historic high and up 4.4 per cent from a year earlier, Flight Master estimated. International passenger traffic rose 3.1 per cent during the period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3366060\/china-cuts-thousands-japan-flights-strained-ties-send-travellers-elsewhere?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of scheduled flights from mainland China to Japan were scrapped during a record-breaking summer travel season for domestic carriers, as travellers pivoted to other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[832,4212,4804,2251,1953,29346,8198,839,3073],"class_list":["post-81582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-china","tag-cuts","tag-flights","tag-japan","tag-send","tag-strained","tag-thousands","tag-ties","tag-travellers","wpcat-4840-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81582","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=81582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}