During the second half of last year, it became clear that the China-Europe aviation market would be shifting considerably in favor of the East. Due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, a lack of access to Russian airspace has significantly increased flight times and operational costs, ultimately impacting profits and European airlines’ competitiveness on the market versus their Chinese and Asian counterparts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chinese airlines are boosting schedules to Europe. In light of recent US-China tensions, that might just be the safer bet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1843,396,1601,1197,13240,120,309,15477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-china","category-aircraft","category-china-airlines","category-china-eastern-airlines","category-commercial-aviation","category-europe","category-russia","category-sf-routes-analysis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t