(Update, Jan. 30: This report has been updated with additional information from carriers.)
Several airlines have reduced service to China as health officials there grapple with the coronavirus outbreak. Besides United Airlines, which on Tuesday announced reduced service through Feb. 8, several other airlines that have altered their schedules:
- American Airlines has canceled flights between Los Angeles and both Shanghai and Beijing from Feb. 9 through March 27, though it will continue to operate its service to Hong Kong.
- Asiana Airlines has suspended some routes, including flights between Seoul Incheon and Haikou from Feb. 2 through March 1 and between Seoul and both Guilin and Changsha from Feb. 2 through March 28.
- British Airways has suspended all flights to and from Beijing and Shanghai until Jan. 31 and is assessing what to do beyond that date, following the U.K. Foreign Office's advisement against all but essential travel to Mainland China.
- Cathay Pacific is reducing its flight capacity to and from Mainland China by 50 percent from Jan. 30 through the end of March.
- Lufthansa Group airlines have suspended all flights to and from Beijing through Feb. 9, operating their last flights on Wednesday to allow crews to return home.
- Air Canada has suspended all direct flights to Beijing and Shanghai from Jan. 30 until Feb. 29, following the Canadian government's advisory to avoid nonessential travel to Mainland China.
- Air France has reduced its service to Beijing and Shanghai this week to one daily flight to each, down from its usual 10 weekly flights to Beijing and 13 weekly flights to Shanghai.
- KLM has cancelled its flights to Chengdu and Hangzhou beginning Thursday and its flights to Xiamen beginning Friday, and it has cut weekly service to Shanghai from 11 to 7 flights per week. It is keeping seven weekly flights to Beijing. All changes are in effect until Feb. 29.
- On Feb. 6, Delta will reduce its weekly flights between the U.S. and China from 42 weekly flights to 21 through April 30. The cuts will not eliminate any of Delta's U.S.-China gateways, which include Beijing from both Detroit and Seattle and Shanghai from Atlanta, Detroit and Los Angeles. Daily service on each of those routes will be cut to three or four weekly flights.
- Beyond Feb. 9, United is cutting its daily departures between the U.S. and Mainland China and Hong Kong from 12 to four until March 28. Daily service to Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong will remain from San Francisco as well as some service between Los Angeles and Shanghai. United is not altering its schedule to Chengdu.
The Trump administration also is considering restricting all flights between the U.S. and China, according to multiple media reports.