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Seven of China's major airlines may, with immediate effect, operate a total of 12 weekly round trips to the United States, marking a gradual lifting of US-China restrictions imposed three years ago when Beijing banned all entry to US airlines over Covid-19.

Those affected include Air China, Capital Airlines (China), China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Sichuan Airlines and Xiamen Airlines, according to an order issued by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) on May 3, 2023.

The order modifies a US ban on Chinese scheduled passenger services between the United States and China issued in response to China closing all access on March 26, 2020. The US regulator has since adjusted the cap to allow Chinese carriers eight weekly round-trip passenger flights to/from the United States. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) subsequently approved two weekly Dallas/Fort Worth-Shanghai Pudong flights for American Airlines for services beginning in November 2020, bringing the aggregate total of US combination services to ten.

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Shanghai Airlines (FM, Shanghai Hongqiao) has joined the ranks of China-based carriers resuming B737 MAX flight ops, with the ch-aviation fleets advanced module showing the airline has returned one of its eleven B737-8s to service, along with a second about to restart revenue operations. Shanghai Airlines is the 11th airline in China to resume B737-8 flights.

Shanghai Airlines has both B-1259 (msn 61627) and B-208M (msn 61634) back in the air. In early March, B-208M began flying scheduled services, primarily between Shanghai and Changzhou. More recently, the aircraft is operating on the Shanghai Hongqiao - Taiyuan sector. The second B737-8, B-1259, appears to be finalizing a series of proving flights ahead of resuming revenue operations. The aircraft operated two proving flights at Taiyuan on April 10 and operated a non scheduled flight from that airport to Shanghai Hongqiao on April 11.

Including B-1259, China's airlines have so far returned 44 of their ninety-five B737-8s to service. China Southern Airlines (CZ, Guangzhou) has 16 of its twenty MAX jets back...