Every foreign airline will be required to maintain only one air route to China and operate no more than one flight a week starting Sunday, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said in a circular on Thursday, in the latest move to cut international passenger flights and curb imported novel coronavirus infections.

At midnight on Jan 31, all China Southern Airlines crew members received a message asking for volunteers to form a special crew for a charter flight to the island of Phuket in Thailand to pick up Chinese citizens.

On Feb 20, a China Southern Airlines aircraft took off from Guangzhou, Guangdong provinces, carrying 95 medical workers and over 4 metric tons of medical equipment, to help in the fight against COVID-19 in the city of Jingzhou, Hubei province.

To All Transport Airlines:

Logistics companies in China are planning to expand their international cargo operations and charter flights for air cargo shipments to cope with the growing air traffic suspensions across the world due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.

In accordance with relevant provisions of the Frontier Health and Quarantine Law of the People's Republic of China and the Civil Aviation Law of the People's Republic of China, it is decided that all international passenger flights bound for Beijing will be diverted to designated first points of entry into China. It is hereby announced as follows:

Beijing will redirect some inbound flights scheduled to land at its Beijing Capital International Airport to other airports in nearby cities based on changes in the epidemic situation, in a bid to ease the mounting pressure on the city that is seeing an increasing number of imported cases of the novel coronavirus.

China civil aviation authorities will cap the number of inbound flights to the country in a bid to tighten the control of imported cases of novel coronavirus.

Health officials are studying the feasibility of putting inbound travelers in facilities near Hong Kong International Airport as "tens of thousands" are expected to arrive in the city in the next two weeks.

Reported by CARNOC.com, Air China, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines successively released Announcement on Key Operating Data of February 2020 on the evening of March 18.