The day after the U.S. Treasury Department officially designated China as a “currency manipulator,” Air China announced that it would suspend Beijing-Hawaii flights starting August 27. Chinese tourists believe it is one of the Chinese regime’s retaliation methods, and expressed their anger online, saying “why do you punish your own citizens because you are fighting a trade war with the United States?”
Air China’s flight from Beijing to Honolulu is presently the only direct flight between the two cities. The announcement to suspend flights was made on August 6, and attributed to “factors including network layout and capacity arrangement.”
