Spring Airlines offers reduced tickets to Japan_美文

Spring Airlines offers reduced tickets to Japan

Kagawa prefecture is also jointly supporting the initiative with the airline, Zhang said, adding that there are no plans to launch similar promotions in the near future.

Major Chinese airlines have been reducing their flights to Japan due to the shrinking number of passengers as tensions between the two countries threaten bilateral economic ties.

China Southern Airlines, which has an 11 percent market share of the China-Japan civil aviation market, will stop its four weekly flights from Beijing to Toyama on Oct 28, Kyodo News reported on Wednesday.

Peng Jun, head of the airline's public relations department, did not confirm that the flights from Beijing to Toyama will be stopped, but said that there will be changes to the route when a new schedule is introduced.

Peng said that any decision to stop the flights would be "purely business related".

Airlines usually have different flight schedules for summer and winter, and the changes are announced by the end of October.

Media reports said that China Eastern Airlines recently stopped its flights from Shanghai to Fukushima, and that its business outlets in Fukushima will also be closed by the end of October.

However, China Eastern told China Daily that the carrier stopped flights between Shanghai and Fukushima after last year's massive earthquake and that its outlets have been closed since then.

China Eastern - the main carrier operating China-Japan routes - postponed its new route between Shanghai and Sendai, which it had planned to open on Oct 18, due to lackluster demand.