Originally Posted by
Finkface
CZ flights this route because the whole world is not made up of American or Canadian passport holders who do not have Chinese visas, which is who the exception applies to. There are other nationalities in the world, you know. As much as we like to think we are the centre of the universe, CZ obviously does not agree. Saying an airline has no business flying a route because it impacts US and Canadian passport holders who want to use TWOV is ridiculous.
Plus, it is 100% the traveller's reaponsibility to ensure they have the proper documents for their journey. How could CZ possibly bear any reaponsibility for this? This entire post is ridiculous.
How about if the US government were to have a policy that visa holders from China cannot use SJC to enter the US, and US embassies and consulates do not advertise such information, and Air China does not give you a link to Timatic or mention the SJC exception on its website, and then launch a route PEK-SJC? (Fortunately, CA is much more meticulous on its website, listing all documents required of Taiwanese and HKers who've been buying the PEK transit.)
We're talking about what's "reasonable" here. And CZ flying WUH-USA while not mentioning the WUH exception but is selling routings to third countries is not reasonable.