{"id":368535,"date":"2020-08-19T10:09:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T04:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=368535"},"modified":"2020-08-19T10:09:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T04:39:09","slug":"us-and-china-agree-to-double-the-number-of-airline-flights-between-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-and-china-agree-to-double-the-number-of-airline-flights-between-them\/","title":{"rendered":"US and China agree to double the number of airline flights between them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: The United States and China have agreed to double the number of airline flights that each other&#8217;s airlines can operate between the countries, from four to eight per week.<\/p>\n<p>The deal marks a further easing of a standoff between the world&#8217;s two biggest economies over travel restrictions imposed during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The US Transportation Department announced the increase Tuesday, saying that China&#8217;s aviation authority decided this week to permit expanded flights by United and Delta.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the announcement, Chicago-based United Airlines said it will go from two to four flights per week between San Francisco and Shanghai via Seoul, starting September 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: The United States and China have agreed to double the number of airline flights that each other&#8217;s airlines can operate between the countries, from four to eight per week. The deal marks a further easing of a standoff between the world&#8217;s two biggest economies over travel restrictions imposed during the pandemic. The US Transportation Department announced the increase Tuesday, saying that China&#8217;s aviation authority decided this week to permit expanded flights by United and Delta. Shortly after the announcement, Chicago-based United Airlines said it will go from two to four flights per week between San Francisco and Shanghai via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}