Chinese Airlines Promise to Refund Tickets to Covid-19-Hit Chengdu
Liao Shumin
DATE:  Dec 09 2020
/ SOURCE:  Yicai
Chinese Airlines Promise to Refund Tickets to Covid-19-Hit Chengdu Chinese Airlines Promise to Refund Tickets to Covid-19-Hit Chengdu

(Yicai Global) Dec. 9 -- Travelers who bought air tickets to Chengdu in southwestern Sichuan province before Dec. 7 can cancel or change their flights free of charge as five airlines back the city’s efforts to clamp down on a resurgence of Covid-19 cases.

Air China, Sichuan Airlines and three other carriers confirmed yesterday that they will allow consumers who bought their tickets to Chengdu before Dec. 7 to change their travel plans without charge.

The capital of Sichuan province has found five new confirmed cases of Covid-19 since Dec. 7, the municipal health commission said today. Of these, one was brought in from outside the province and four were locally transmitted.

Some 138 out of 1,064 flights scheduled to take off from or land at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport today had been cancelled as of 10.25 a.m. China time, according to air travel app Flight Master. Yesterday over 140 flights were cancelled.

Chengdu airport, which had the world’s third largest passenger throughput in the first 10 months of the year, is checking the 'QR health codes,' which use an electronic barcode to store a person’s travel and health history to measure his or her potential exposure to the novel coronavirus, of all arrivals. Only those who have green health codes and normal temperatures can enter the city.

The news will throw a spanner in the travel plans of legions of fans of a young Tibetan internet sensation called Ding Zhen who comes from Litang county in the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. His popularity has driven up searches for ‘Litang’ and ‘Ganzi’ 15-fold and eight times respectively as of Dec. 4, according to online travel agency Ctrip.com.

Editor: Kim Taylor

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Keywords:   Chengdu,Covid-19,Airlines