All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines cut China flights

JAPAN's two biggest airlines ANA and JAL have announced reductions in flights to China, blaming weakening demand amid the global economic slowdown, reports Logistics Week.

All Nippon Airways (ANA) has halted regular flights between Kansai International Airport, the gateway to the western Japanese city of Osaka, and Dalian.

ANA are also suspending the Kansai-Dalian-Shenyang route, while reducing services between Tokyo's Narita International Airport and Shanghai from the current 21 flights a week to 14.

Japan Airlines (JAL) has announced separately to reduce the number of flights on its Narita-Beijing route from 19 to 14 per week from February until March 28, and on the Narita-Shanghai route from 28 to 21 per week.

Source: Schednet