Long-suffering Chinese air passengers now have even more to rage at after unheralded military exercises forced domestic airlines to cancel a quarter of all flights in the heavily populated east of the country for at least three weeks.
All unscheduled or private aircraft flights have been suspended and commercial airlines have been ordered to cut the number of routes in and out of most big airports in eastern China because of “routine military exercises”, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said in a statement yesterday.
As many as 26,000 flights in and out of 12 eastern airports could be cancelled in the coming weeks as a result of the exercises, which are expected to last until at least August 15.