The resumption and increase of routes involve Asia, Europe, and America.
On October 17, The Paper learned from China Eastern Airlines that China Eastern Airlines plans to resume multiple international routes at the end of October, including Shanghai-Bangkok-Qingdao, Hangzhou/Qingdao/Nanjing/Kunming-Tokyo Narita, Qingdao/Nanjing/Yantai-Seoul Incheon, and Qingdao-Dubai routes. After the official start of the winter-spring season on October 30, 2022, China Eastern Airlines plans to increase its weekly international passenger routes to 42 routes and 108 flights.
The newly added international routes will be gradually implemented starting from October 20. Among them, the Kunming-Bangkok and Hangzhou-Tokyo Narita routes will resume on the 20th, with one flight per week; the Phnom Penh-Kunming route will increase to two flights per week starting on the 24th; the Kunming-Tokyo Narita, Nanjing-Seoul Incheon, and Qingdao-Seoul Incheon routes will resume on the 25th; the Nanjing-Tokyo Narita and Qingdao-Seoul Incheon routes will increase to one flight per week on the 26th; the Shanghai-Bangkok-Qingdao and Qingdao-Dubai routes will increase to one flight per week on the 27th; and the Qingdao-Tokyo Narita and Yantai-Seoul Incheon routes will be implemented on the 29th. In November, China Eastern Airlines will also successively resume and increase the frequency of international routes such as Hangzhou-Manila and Kunming-Ho Chi Minh City. 
China Eastern Airlines plans to resume multiple international routes.
It is reported that since July this year, China Eastern Airlines has gradually resumed multiple international routes, including Hangzhou-Manila, Hangzhou-Kuala Lumpur, Qingdao-Osaka, Qingdao-Seoul Incheon, and Kunming-Colombo. As of mid-October, China Eastern Airlines had 25 routes and 54 flights per week.
On October 17, The Paper learned from Southern Airlines that Southern Airlines plans to resume the Guangzhou-Jakarta and Dalian-Tokyo Narita routes in October, and increase flights on the Guangzhou-Dubai, Guangzhou-Manila, Guangzhou-Bangkok, and Guangzhou-Phnom Penh routes.
Among them, the Guangzhou-Jakarta route will resume on October 26 with two round trips per week, and the Dalian-Tokyo Narita route will resume on October 25 with two round trips per week; the Guangzhou-Dubai route will increase to three round trips per week starting on October 27, the Guangzhou-Manila route will increase to one round trip per week starting on October 27, the Guangzhou-Bangkok route will increase to one round trip per week starting on October 24, and the Guangzhou-Phnom Penh route will increase to one round trip per week starting on October 18. Currently, Southern Airlines' international flights will increase from 71 flights per week to 86 flights per week (round-trip counted as 2 flights).
According to a WeChat message from Air China on September 29, Air China will resume multiple international routes. Among them, the Manila, Jakarta, and Tokyo routes apply to travel dates from September 19, 2022 to October 29, 2022; the Warsaw, Athens, Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Toronto routes apply to travel dates from September 19, 2022 to December 31, 2022.
Air China said it will resume multiple international routes.
Hainan Airlines also recently disclosed the resumption of multiple international routes. Hainan Airlines stated that after the start of the winter-spring season on October 30, it will continue to operate 10 round-trip international passenger routes, including Beijing-Brussels, Beijing-Moscow, Beijing-Belgrade, Beijing-Berlin, Beijing-Manchester, Chongqing-Rome, Chongqing-Madrid, Shenzhen-Vancouver, Dalian-Tokyo, and Dalian-Seoul, and will increase the Chongqing-Rome international flights to twice a week.
Among them, Hainan Airlines plans to increase the frequency of its Chongqing-Rome direct flights to two round trips per week starting from November 6, adding a Sunday flight to the existing Thursday flight. Both round trips will carry passengers and cargo, and the increased capacity will be restored to the pre-epidemic level.
According to an official WeChat message from Spring Airlines on October 13, Spring Airlines will open multiple Hong Kong, Macau, and international routes starting from October 14. International routes include eight round-trip routes: Shenyang-Osaka, Hangzhou-Tokyo (Narita), Hangzhou-Seoul, Shanghai-Bangkok, Nanning-Phnom Penh, Guangzhou-Phnom Penh, Nanning-Bangkok, and Shenyang-Seoul.
Spring Airlines opens multiple new Hong Kong, Macau, and international routes.
Juneyao Airlines also plans to open and resume some international routes in October. According to a recent Weibo post from Juneyao Airlines, the Nanjing-Seoul route will be operated starting from October 8, with one flight per week on Saturdays. The Nanjing-Osaka round-trip route will resume on October 16, with one flight per week on Sundays.
Civil Aviation Administration of China: Gradually increasing the number of international flights.
At the end of May this year, after the State Council executive meeting mentioned "orderly increasing domestic and international passenger flights and formulating measures to facilitate the travel of foreign enterprise personnel," multiple domestic airlines announced the resumption of international passenger routes starting in June.
At the press conference of the Civil Aviation Administration of China in July this year, Xu Qing, deputy director of the Transportation Department of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said that considering the needs of overseas students returning to China and other international personnel exchanges, under the unified coordination of the State Council's joint prevention and control mechanism, the Civil Aviation Administration of China is steadily and orderly resuming international scheduled passenger flights based on the development of the epidemic situation, the optimization of recent prevention and control measures, and the improvement of local capacity to support international flights, and accelerating the recovery of the international aviation market. The Civil Aviation Administration of China will continue to strengthen consultations with relevant countries and gradually increase the number of international flights.
