Edi Automotive

The Corona pandemic has hit the airline industry hard around the world, but nowhere as hard as the airlines in China. Countless connections have had to be canceled due to the lockdowns. Photos of „aircraft graveyards,“ where hundreds of aircraft are stored, made the rounds on social media. While domestic traffic in China has been running normally for most of the past two years, international flights have been virtually non-existent. Add to that a weak yuan, high jet fuel costs and the mysterious crash in Guangxi, as Christian Domke-Seidel reports. The government is now putting together a new rescue package. If Germany saves Lufthansa, then China will save its partly state-owned airlines.