Hainan Airlines suspends Tel Aviv-Shanghai flights

প্রকাশিত: 2 September 2019, 7:43:48 pm

Hainan Airlines suspends Tel Aviv-Shanghai flights.

Hainan Airlines said the suspension was due to operational constraints.

Hainan Airlines has discontinued its direct flights from Tel Aviv to Shanghai. The airline announced that it was “suspending its flights to Shanghai for the coming winter.” For now, the suspension applies to the airline’s winter schedule, from October 27, 2019 through March 29, 2020. Hainan said that the halt was temporary and due to operational constraints, but provided no details.

The route to Shanghai, launched in September 2017, was the airline’s second route between China and Israel, after the launch of direct flights to Beijing a year earlier. Hainan also operates a direct flight to Shenzhen. The routes to Beijing and Shenzhen will continue as scheduled.

Hainan emphasized that the reason for the suspension was not security-related (there is no travel warning for Israel). The airline canceled a flight to Tel Aviv last year following a warning by the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol), due to concern at the time about attacks in the area of Syria.