Now that the usual suspects in the media can no longer gloss over the overwhelming evidence that the CCP – the un-elected criminals running China – were indeed responsible for the Covid pandemic – both the start and the cover-up – there could be some very fundamental additional changes the air relationship between China and the USA.
As a major researcher of Chinese aviation, we’ll be following this in the weeks ahead. We already know that the 8+ million China-USA O&D seen in 2019 will be more like 1 million in the next three years – a hit for US carriers, but more for Chinese airlines that had over 65% of the traffic.
Airports in line of fire for further enplanement adjustments: LAX, SFO, SEA, all former gateways for Chinese air carriers.
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