Major Chinese airlines have further extended their flexible ticketing policies for flights to and from Japan, allowing eligible passengers to make free changes or cancellations for travel through late March 2026, according to the announcements by carriers such as Air China and China Eastern Airlines on Friday.
The policy adjustment aims to assist affected travelers in better managing their itineraries.
With the updated rules, passengers holding tickets for inbound, outbound, or transit flights involving Japan, with a scheduled departure date on or before March 28, 2026, may now request fee-free refunds or rebookings.
The move represents an extension of the free-change policy first introduced in mid-November.
Since November 15, multiple airlines have been implementing similar flexible terms for tickets originally issued for travel between November 15 and December 31, 2025.
Chinese airlines adjust ticketing policies for Japan routes
Chinese airlines adjust ticketing policies for Japan routes
Former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin on Friday called on China and France to jointly promote multilateralism and cooperation.
Raffarin is currently in the Chengdu City of southwest China's Sichuan Province, the second stop of French President Emmanuel Macron's state visit to China from Wednesday to Friday.
Macron's visit is a significant opportunity for the two major powers to rebalance bilateral trade ties, and also a chance for them to redefine a vision for global governance, Raffarin told China Global Television Network (CGTN).
Noting that China and France are both peace-loving countries, Raffarin said they must work together to contribute to world peace and promote multilateralism. "France and China are peace-loving nations. The Chinese people have never waged a war outside their borders -- they have fought only when attacked. China can speak for peace, and so can France, which managed to make peace with Germany despite the many tragedies that occurred during three wars. We are peaceful peoples, and therefore we must contribute together to world peace," said Raffarin.
"Both China and France support a multilateral global governance system. We want to reform multilateralism because today's rules are still those of 1945. It has been a long time since the UN and other international institutions were created. They must be reformed and modernized, while preserving the ambition of multilateralism to uphold world peace. From this perspective, Sino-French cooperation is in the interest of both countries -- and also in the interest of the world and of global peace," he added.
Raffarin said he expects more cooperation between China and Europe, and called for China's support in ending the Ukraine crisis.
"We clearly need to make progress in China-Europe cooperation. We must also make commercial progress by increasing cooperation between our industries -- including more Chinese components in European products, and more European components in Chinese products. We have progress to make, but the path has been set by the two heads of state. A new path has been opened for more balanced development. And of course, what is very important is that a war is now being fought in Europe -- in Ukraine. We need China's peaceful engagement to help the world find a way toward peace, in this conflict as well as many others. Peace is at the heart of our commitments -- it is China's commitment, and it is also France's," said Raffarin.
Former French PM urges China, France to jointly promote multilateralism, cooperation
