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Chinese carriers announce detours around Ukraine
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China Eastern Airlines and other major Chinese carriers today announced they would avoid flying over Ukraine as the nation’s civil aviation regulator asked them to avoid the area where a Malaysian Airlines plane was shot down yesterday.
Chinese carriers have 28 flights flying over Ukraine per week but no direct flights to Ukraine, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said in a statement on its website.
All 298 people on the aircraft perished as flight MH17 was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. US officials believe the plane was hit by a surface-to-air missile over Ukraine.
The flight path is popular among commercial airliners flying between Asia and northern Europe.
China Eastern has only one flight over Ukraine. The airline’s press officer said the route of flight MU788 between Rome and Pudong International Airport has already been changed.
China Southern Airlines said all of its flights to its five European destinations do not fly over Ukraine, thus no changes were required.
“It is quite complicated for an airline to change its route,” a civil aviation expert surnamed Zhou told Shanghai Daily. “The carrier has to apply for new certifications from the nation that it is about to fly over and that takes a long time,” he said.
Hainan Airlines said it had no flights passing over Ukraine.
Foreign airlines including Lufthansa, Air France and Turkish Airlines have announced detours around Ukraine. Aeroflot has canceled all flights to the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
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