Airlines oppose Air China (brecorder.com)

Airlines for America is opposing Air China’s request to schedule two additional flights from Beijing to New York and Washington for this week and next week around President Xi Jinping’s meeting with President Donald Trump. US airlines cannot fly from the US east coast to China because they lack Russian airspace access, and the group wants the flights classified as charters. A US proposal to ban Chinese airlines from Russian airspace was shelved in October 2025.