Posted on 04/14/2017 11:32:20 AM PDT by rdl6989
BEIJING: China's national airline, Air China, has cancelled some flights to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, due to poor demand but it has not suspended all flights there, it said on Friday, denying a report by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
CCTV had reported that all flights run by the airline between the two cities were to be suspended indefinitely.
"Air China did not stop operation of the Beijing to Pyongyang route, but temporarily cancelled some flights based on the situation of ticket sales," said a person in Air China's communications team.
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Poor demand?? Not too many tourists want to visit the workers paradise of N. Korea nowadays??? Who would have guessed??????
I guess they don’t have United’s problem of overbooking.
I am sure that tourism, such as it is, has disappeared.
Poor deman = I prefer not c to be blown to smithereens.
Poor deman = I prefer not c to be blown to smithereens.
I’m guessing they don’t want their citizens in N Korea when s—t goes down....
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