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The figures for airlines based outside of mainland China sound bad enough. Yet this was nothing compared with the catastrophe that has overtaken airlines within the country as it struggles to contain the coronavirus that originated in Wuhan.

The outlook for international demand is so bleak that the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has had to direct airlines not to cut services to the extent that air links with any foreign country now served would be severed.

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