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Three major U.S. carriers granted waiver extensions for flights to China
March 11th 2024
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT) has approved requests from American Airlines (AA), Delta Air Lines (Delta) and United Airlines (UA) for continuation of waivers on flight frequencies between China and North America. Read More » UA received waivers for the 49 allocated weekly frequencies it was not going to operate between the U.S. and China to late October. Delta will have 32 allocated weekly frequencies waived for the same months and AA can continue to shelve 14 of its U.S.-Mainland frequencies for each week of the summer scheduling season. “We will require the carriers to resume services using the affected frequencies no later than October 27, 2024,” the DoT said in its recent determination. U.S. airlines have been operating a fraction of their pre-COVID schedules to China as a result of slow to recover air traffic demand in the U.S.-China market.
