Delta resumes flights to China this week

Delta will resume flights between the US and China this week, making it first US carrier to do so since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, as travel restrictions and regulatory sparring between the countries’ aviation authorities ease. The airline said Monday that its weekly flights between Seattle and Shanghai via Seoul will begin this week. In July, it will reinstate weekly flights to Shanghai from Detroit. The routes will be serviced with the airline’s Airbus A350 aircraft. “We are excited to resume our services between the US and China, as economic and social activities start to recover,” said Wong Hong, Delta’s president for greater China and Singapore. In the past two months, Delta had operated cargo-only flights to Seoul and Shanghai from Detroit and Los Angeles. But passenger travel was halted due to a regulatory spat between the two countries.<br/>