Exactly. Sure, restart those flights, and see howmany foreigners are willing to jump all those hurdles to come here, and then watch the airlines go bankrupt.
Increasing flights without changing the immigration situation just means allowing only Japanese nationals to freely visit those places, especially if the PCR test required for non-Japanese to enter Japan is not freely available there.
Some countries are seeing a drop in infection cases so Japan should gradually accept entries from those countries. Balancing between economy and health is very difficult but sooner or later we have to open up to revitalize tourism and flights industry.
It’s not about Japan ‘allowing’ flights, it’s more about whether airlines want to have routes to Japan. At the moment very few do, why would they? No customers. They won’t come back unless it’s a viable business option.
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Ah_so
Tonga
Aly Rustom
before they even start talking about that, they need to start letting in the tax payers stranded abroad.
Peter Neil
Samoa, Tonga, Soloman Islands...
Pukey2
kohakuebisu:
Exactly. Sure, restart those flights, and see howmany foreigners are willing to jump all those hurdles to come here, and then watch the airlines go bankrupt.
kohakuebisu
Increasing flights without changing the immigration situation just means allowing only Japanese nationals to freely visit those places, especially if the PCR test required for non-Japanese to enter Japan is not freely available there.
yaga537
Some countries are seeing a drop in infection cases so Japan should gradually accept entries from those countries. Balancing between economy and health is very difficult but sooner or later we have to open up to revitalize tourism and flights industry.
Luddite
It’s not about Japan ‘allowing’ flights, it’s more about whether airlines want to have routes to Japan. At the moment very few do, why would they? No customers. They won’t come back unless it’s a viable business option.
Toasted Heretic
Not to or from the USA, no thanks.
Vince Black
Not to or from China. No way.