Washington: The American Government imposed ban on Chinese Passenger Airlines from flying into or out of the US starting June 16^th in retaliation for a similar ban by the Chinese Government on US companies.

Further escalating tensions between two economies, relations have deteriorated in recent weeks as officials scuffled over the origin of the pandemic and China’s move to tighten its authority over Hong Kong. The aviation dispute threatens to further chill economic relations. Flights between the countries were already sharply curtailed by the pandemic and Chinese restriction on foreign airlines that effectively halted trips by United Airlines, Delta Airlines and American Airlines, the major US carriers that go there.

China’s aviation said on March 26^th that they would limit foreign carriers on the flight for week based on schedules that were in place earlier that month. But those three airlines had already stopped service to the country by then because of the Covid- 19, Chinese airlines continued to fly to US cities.