Japan Scraps Blanket Halt on New Incoming Flight Bookings
- Suspension had been introduced on concerns over omicron
- Decision marks a partial policy reversal for government
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Japan has dropped a plan for a blanket halt to all new incoming flight reservations, in a partial reversal of a policy announced a day earlier on concerns about the omicron variant.
The announcement made Thursday by the top government spokesman comes after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the total ban on new bookings had caused confusion among some people. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno also said the government told airlines to “take the needs of returning Japanese nationals into consideration.”