Seven airlines have announced that they are halting or reducing flights to China as the country struggles to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus. The airlines are Air France, British Airways, United Airlines, Lion Air, Finnair, Cathay Pacific and Urals AirlinesAir France suspended its three weekly flights to Wuhan on January 24, but as of Wednesday morning said it was maintaining its 23 weekly flights to Beijing and Shanghai. British Airways, which flies daily from London's Heathrow airport to Shanghai and Beijing, said it had suspended all its flights to and from mainland China. Indonesia's Lion Air Group, Southeast Asia's biggest carrier by fleet size, is halting all its flights to and from China owing to the deadly coronavirus, a company spokesman said Wednesday. Also, Finnair said that the suspension of group travel from China was leading it to suspend some flights beginning February 5 through most of March.

Source: Punch January 29, 2020 10:16 UTC