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It is too difficult for international students to return to China!
Just in the past few days, the US Department of Transportation stated that it plans to cancel 26 US flights to China operated by Chinese airlines starting from September. This means that the flight capacity of China-US routes, which is already in short supply, will be further reduced.
Many international students have long begun to return to China in a roundabout way. The first choice transit point is Hong Kong, but recently Hong Kong’s return route seems to be unavailable..
Can our international students still return home smoothly?
China and the United States are arguing, and there are basically no flights back to China in September
The U.S. Department of Transportation issued a notice on August 25, local time, stating that due to the cancellation of many flights to China by U.S. airlines, it plans to cancel 26 flights by Chinese airlines ( Flights from the United States to China operated by Air China, China Southern Airlines , China Eastern Airlines , Xiamen Airlines ). What is the concept of
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This move will make the already poor flight capacity of China-US routes even worse.
The scheduled canceled flights between China and the United States include multiple flights of Air China, China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines and Xiamen Airlines - CA770 Los Angeles - Shenzhen: September 6, 13, 20 and 27, CA988 Los Angeles - Beijing on September 18 and 25;
【China Eastern Airlines】
MU588 New York - Shanghai on September 7, 12, 14, 19, 21, 26 and 28
[China Southern Airlines]
CZ328 Los Angeles - Guangzhou on September 10, 12, 17, 19, 24 and 26;
[Xiamen Airlines]
MF830 Los Angeles - Xiamen September 5, 8, 12, 15, 19, 22 and 26.
Regarding the flight situation, you can refer to this table produced by @North American Ticket Emperor, which is more intuitive.
The blue underlined part is the flight involved in the countermeasures.
Because this notice has just been issued, there are still many uncertainties. For example, whether Chinese airlines’ flights to the United States will be canceled due to reciprocity restrictions, and whether this countermeasure will only target flights in September or not. Will those in October be involved?
However, the US Department of Transportation also stated in the announcement that if China is prepared to relax restrictions on flights, they will also relax it. On the contrary, if China continues to cancel flights by US airlines, they will "take other measures."
In other words, the possibility that the United States will continue to cancel in October cannot be ruled out for the time being.
However, the reactions of various airlines will gradually become clearer in the next few weeks, and Xueba Jun will continue to pay attention.
Anyway, no matter how the China-US flights fight, the ones who will be injured in the end are us international students and passengers.
We international students should be familiar with this operation in the United States.
Since the beginning of the epidemic, China and the United States have been at odds over flight circuit breaker.
In January this year, the U.S. Department of Transportation suspended 44 flights from the United States to China by four Chinese airlines in response to China’s decision to suspend 44 flights by U.S. airlines.
In August 2021, the USDOT (U.S. Department of Transportation) restricted four flights from Chinese airlines to 40% capacity for four days after Beijing imposed the same restrictions on United Airlines flights. weeks.
Three US airlines and four Chinese airlines usually operate about 20 flights per week between the two countries, which is far lower than the number of more than 100 flights per week before the epidemic...
Some netizens said that in this case, then Let's take the Hong Kong route back.
However, it is not safe to choose to transit Hong Kong to return to the mainland.
A large number of Chinese are stranded in Hong Kong! You have to lottery to go home
Before, people chose Hong Kong mainly because the air tickets were cheaper, and after Hong Kong implemented the new quarantine regulations of "3+4" (3 days of hotel quarantine plus 4 days of home medical monitoring), overseas students from the mainland only need to complete 3 days of quarantine in Hong Kong. After just one day of hotel quarantine, I can go home and lie down smoothly.
But it’s such a good thing, everyone who sees it wants to participate.
No, after the implementation of the New Deal, the number of tourists entering Hong Kong continued to increase sharply. On August 14 alone, 7,428 people arrived in Hong Kong.The popularity of
has also brought about a series of chain reactions: the quarantine hotel is full and the price has skyrocketed. It is impossible to get a ticket home, and the price of direct flight tickets is still rising.
Hong Kong is simply “unbearable” and a large number of tourists are currently stranded in Hong Kong.
To make matters worse, Shenzhen stated that starting from July 14, entering Shenzhen from Hong Kong requires a quarantine hotel to be determined in advance and a "lottery" system will be adopted. Only 2,000 people will win the lottery every day.
In other words, from now on it will no longer be about hand speed, but luck.
Some people may get the number before the three-day quarantine is completed, and then return to the mainland smoothly, but some people may continue to stay in Hong Kong for ten days and a half, or even longer, such as 46 days...
Just for fun Just the heartbeat.
can only say that I hope everyone can have a smooth journey home. If God can help me, I hope everyone can go home smoothly.
China Customs: Entry and exit personnel do not need to declare nucleic acids
There is another piece of news that has caused international students to explode in the past few days:
The customs announced that starting from August 31, entry and exit personnel will no longer need to declare nucleic acids!
No need to take nucleic acid test when returning to China? What about such a good thing?
Let us take a closer look at the detailed content:
has canceled the declaration requirements for nucleic acid test information, past infection status, and vaccination date for entry and exit personnel.
has improved or adjusted the items that entry and exit personnel were prone to have questions about in the past, making it easier for entry and exit personnel to understand and fill in.
has added the function of confirming the "Informed Consent for Sampling" online, making it more convenient for inbound and outbound passengers to simplify the on-site quarantine process, jointly carry out front-line health and quarantine work at the port, and protect the health and safety of the motherland and people behind them.
emmm, at first glance, it seems that there is no need to fill in vaccine records and nucleic acid information when returning to the country, but upon closer inspection, something is wrong.
turned out to be so busy, but what was canceled was actually the declaration of nucleic acid information on the customs fingertip service applet, which simplified the declaration process of what we commonly call black codes, and black codes are only used for customs entry.
And we still have to provide the green code (health code) before getting on the plane. Since we have to apply for the green code, we still can’t save any of the nucleic acid and nucleic acid work.
I don’t know what everyone thinks of this new change?
No matter how the policy changes, Xuebajun still hopes that everyone can return to China smoothly!
Author: Mary
Editor: ie
CSO Studying Abroad focuses on major issues such as overseas students going abroad, choosing schools, flights, employment, etc. If you have any questions, you can send a private message to the author and the author will answer your questions as soon as possible.
The article is reprinted from the North American scholar
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