A report from travel news site Skift shows that seven major airlines have retreated from the country in the past four months.
Longer flights require more fuel, which make flights more expensive.
"Indeed U.S. carriers are making hard but very commercial decisions to drop Chinese services and redeploy the aircraft elsewhere," he said.
China airlines' struggleLow demand has also plagued domestic airlines in China.
Collectively, Chinese airlines have increased capacity to Europe, compared to pre-pandemic, even though the market and trade flows were much stronger then, said Grant.
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Organizations:
FIA, FI, British Airlines, Qantas, Nurphoto, Getty, Virgin Atlantic, Scandinavian Airlines, Boeing, OAG, EU, Aaronp, Cape Town, U.S, CNBC, Air China
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China, Asia, Hong Kong, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Russia, — Tokyo, Shanghai, Seoul, Bangkok, Delhi, Singapore, Thailand, Beijing, Cape, Sydney, Australia's, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Hong Kong . U.S, Russian, U.S, Europe, Frankfurt