China to airlines: 'No room for negotiation' on Taiwan labeling

Posted by kuailai99 on September 13th, 2018

China says there will be “no room for negotiation” in its demand that U.S. airlines describe self-ruled Taiwan as part of China ahead of a deadline this week.

Beijing has insisted that carriers change references to Taiwan on their websites to “Taiwan, China” by Wednesday. Taiwan separated from China amid civil war in 1949 but Beijing continues to claim it as its own territory.flight trip tracker

Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Tuesday that China hopes the U.S. government will urge businesses to follow China’s requirements. He did not specify how China would punish defiant carriers, saying only that it will “wait and see.”

According to its Labor Day Air Travel Forecast, which Hopper released Wednesday, trips to the southeast from all other parts of the country will have some of the best bargains, with round-trip flights to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Myrtle Beach, S.C., Orlando, and Atlanta averaging around 0.The low-fare prediction for the Labor Day holiday follows a summer in which the average price for domestic and international airfare has also been the lowest in years, mainly due to the competition the major carriers are feeling from low-cost airlines. Not even a significant increase in the price of fuel, which happened just before the busy summer travel season, did much to boost the price of an airplane ticket. "Oil is getting expensive again, but no one wants to be the first to raise prices,” says Patrick Surrey, chief data scientist at Hopper. Another reason prices have stayed low is that airlines, especially low-cost carriers, get more of their revenue from fees, which shield them from fuel price fluctuations, according to Jay Sorensen, president of IdeaWorksCompany, an aviation industry consultant. So when fuel prices rose, carriers could continue offering cheap airfare, Sorensen said.