The challenge of uncorking the China-US travel bottleneck

Chinese student's five-day, four-country odyssey took months to organize

20200615 American airlines for Caixin

U.S. airlines suspended flights to China in early February as the Covid-19 epidemic intensified in China.  © Reuters

JIA TIANQIONG, BAO ZHIMING, QIAN TONG, WEN SIMIN, ZHANG QI and HAN WEI, Caixin

Chinese college graduate Zhang Jie's journey home to Xiamen from Boston took five days and included two stops in Europe. That was after she spent much of April and May just trying to find flights.

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