{"id":47046,"date":"2026-06-25T07:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/47046\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T07:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:48:07","slug":"china-japan-flights-drop-57-for-summer-travel-peak-amid-geopolitical-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/47046\/","title":{"rendered":"China-Japan flights drop 57% for summer travel peak amid geopolitical tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/china-japan-relations?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">China-Japan<\/a> flights scheduled by airlines for the upcoming summer travel period \u2013 the peak months of July and August \u2013 has dropped by 57 per cent versus a year ago following a political flap and a price hike in Japanese visas, according to industry data.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A total of 2,629 round-trip flights were expected next month between the two Asian countries, down from 6,317 in July last year. In August, 2,641 were scheduled, a drop from the 6,127 flown in August 2025, data compiled by British aviation intelligence firm OAG showed. The data tracked 23 airlines.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWith geopolitical challenges continuing to impact travel patterns, current demand appears to be aligned with the airlines\u2019 planned capacity for the period,\u201d OAG Asia head Mayur Patel said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Mass China-Japan flight cancellations began in November, when Japanese Prime Minister <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/sanae-takaichi?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sanae Takaichi<\/a> upset Beijing by suggesting that Tokyo could deploy military forces in the event of a conflict in the Taiwan Strait.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Beijing issued a travel warning that month urging Chinese citizens to avoid visiting Japan, and some Chinese airlines offered passengers refunds on Japan-bound flight bookings. China had scrapped nearly 9,000 flights to Japan year-to-date as of June 23.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese tourists among groups to be hit hardest by Japan visa price hike<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3357961\/japans-visa-fee-jump-hit-chinese-tourists-hardest-adding-friction-tense-ties?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Japan will raise visa fees next month<\/a> for the first time since 1978. The single-entry visa fee will rise to 15,000 yen (US$92.75) from 3,000 yen and multiple-entry visa fees will cost 30,000 yen compared with 6,000 yen before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of China-Japan flights scheduled by airlines for the upcoming summer travel period \u2013 the peak months&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10579,549,12,32671,5188,32672,8,17,5185,3341,11565,4214,5191,5108,2234,924],"class_list":["post-47046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-asian-countries","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-china-japan-flights","tag-chinese-airlines","tag-chinese-citizens","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-japanese-airlines","tag-japanese-prime-minister-sanae-takaichi","tag-japanese-visas","tag-north-america","tag-oag","tag-southeast-asia","tag-taiwan-strait","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}