US Rolls Back China Covid Flight Curbs Again in Air Travel Boost

An Eastern China Boeing 777 at the gate at Los Angeles International Airport.

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Flights between the US and China will increase to 70 a week starting Nov. 9, American officials said, as the two world’s largest economies gradually lift limits on services imposed during the pandemic.

The number of flights rises from 48 a week, with the equivalent round-trips increasing to 35 from 24, the US Department of Transportation said in a filing Friday. The limit of 24 kicks in on Sunday, after an earlier agreed relaxation from 12.