{"id":96317,"date":"2026-10-29T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=96317"},"modified":"2026-10-29T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:42:00","slug":"china-japan-flights-to-drop-nearly-700000-seats-amid-political-spat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=96317","title":{"rendered":"China-Japan flights to drop nearly 700,000 seats amid political 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\/2026\/10\/29\/7f6b0062-541b-4af3-a6fd-67282e436008_a98dd6e3.jpg?itok=1MgRE6s9&amp;v=1793250875\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Airlines will cut nearly 700,000 seats from their China-Japan flights and axe more than 5,000 flights for the coming winter travel season as a nearly year-old political squabble continues to depress tourism, according to aviation data provider OAG.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">During the commercial aviation industry\u2019s winter season, October 25 through March 27, carriers allocated a combined 2,871,270 seats, compared with 3,554,167 in the same season last year, OAG data showed.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The same airlines allocated 3,889,781 seats in the six months just ended, representing a cut of more than 1 million compared with the coming winter. Summer is traditionally a busier time of year for airlines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/article\/3372534\/china-japan-flights-drop-nearly-700000-seats-amid-political-spat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><br \/>\n<center><script>\n  atOptions = {\n    'key' : 'ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540',\n    'format' : 'iframe',\n    'height' : 90,\n    'width' : 728,\n    'params' : {}\n  };\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highrevenueformat.com\/ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540\/invoke.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines will cut nearly 700,000 seats from their China-Japan flights and axe more than 5,000 flights for the coming winter travel season as a nearly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[11451,2642,4804,4658,3597,9784],"class_list":["post-96317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-chinajapan","tag-drop","tag-flights","tag-political","tag-seats","tag-spat","wpcat-4840-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96317","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=96317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}