Delta and American Airlines will cancel all US-China flights due to coronavirus
Tuesday White House officials said they were considering a China travel ban but said then they had not contacted the airlines. Still, if United, the other U.S. carrier serving China with nonstop flights, follows its rivals' lead, the need for White House intervention may be moot. United has alreadyAmerican cited the State Department's updated travel advisory Friday in suspending its U.S.-China routes immediately through March 28.
Delta usually operates 42 flights a week between its U.S. hubs and China. It said Friday that the last China-bound flight would depart the U.S. on Monday, and the last return flight would depart China on Wednesday. The Association of Professional Flight Attendants' call followed a lawsuit filed Thursday in Dallas by the Allied Pilots Association, which represents 15,000 American pilots, to halt the carrier's flights between the U.S. and China. The flight attendants' union said it supported the pilots' union's court action.
"Due to the known and unknown risks associated with traveling to China right now, concurrent with the filing of our lawsuit, we are directing all American Airlines pilots assigned to flights between the United States and China, other than those on return trips to the United States, to decline the assignment," said the union's president, Eric Ferguson.Earlier Thursday, United Airlines further pared back its U.S.-China flight schedules, extending the cuts through the end of March.
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