{"id":175044,"date":"2025-12-18T15:02:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=175044&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:02:55","slug":"spring-airlines-halts-saga-shanghai-flights","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/spring-airlines-halts-saga-shanghai-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Airlines Halts Saga\u2013Shanghai Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spring Airlines will suspend its Saga\u2013Shanghai route from December 22 after a sharp drop in passenger numbers, Saga Prefecture announced. The Chinese low-cost carrier had already reduced the service from four to two weekly round trips earlier this month. Load factors, previously in the 90% range, fell to around 40% in December following Chinese government travel advisories urging caution about visits to Japan.\u00a0 <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pref.saga.lg.jp\/kiji003117373\/index.html\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saga Prefecture<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saga-s.co.jp\/articles\/-\/1614870\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saga Shimbun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_175040\" style=\"width: 1410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175040\" class=\"size-full wp-image-175040\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fnn_springair-wikimedia_2025_cl.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Spring Airlines Halts Saga\u2013Shanghai Flights\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fnn_springair-wikimedia_2025_cl.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fnn_springair-wikimedia_2025_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fnn_springair-wikimedia_2025_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fnn_springair-wikimedia_2025_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-175040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay informed with the latest Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu news and events in English. Sign up for our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">free weekly newsletter <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">today and never miss a beat. Opt out anytime, your privacy is our priority. Get the inside scoop with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Summaries based on public content, errors may occur during translation. Images credited independently. Send feedback using <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this <\/span><b>form<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring Airlines will suspend its Saga\u2013Shanghai route from December 22 after a sharp drop in passenger numbers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":175040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-175044","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-saga-prefecture","news-category-travel-tourism","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/175044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}