I fly on MU a lot, always book with agents, and have never had any issues. MU is definitely selling LAX for September onwards, but this is no guarantee that the flights will operate. Apparently, if they provide sufficient notice of cancellations their rebooking obligations are minimal.

Lots of airlines selling lots of cheap flights. You can buy them if you want to give an interest free loan to MU but those flights are cheap for a reason....they ain't flying.

you forgot about 5 ones. MU is handling JFK to PVG so no way they are allowed to fly between LAX and China.

The five 1 rule has been relaxed some time ago.

The chart that travelinmanS posted in 681 suggests that CA has two US routes.

DL does as well. But those routes are on the chart because they are approved. LAX-PVG is not approved, not on the chart and not flying in September.

Good luck getting back...hope the trip home is going well.

Can you buy a MU ticket from DL? That might give you some protection if the flight is cancelled. [You might need to call and it would help to have a domestic DL flight on the same ticket.]

that certainly is breaking news to me.

Before the airlines cut flights, CA, CZ, MU, and HU had three US routes each.

If it is pre-Covid, some of them had more than 3 routes.
Just think of Air China: PEK-JFK/EWR/LAX/SFO/IAH/HNL/IAD

I forgot how many CA had, but figured 3 was a safe number to apply to all.

Hearing any updates on this? I checked the news, didn't see anything of note...
Sounds like boosters are being recommended in the US nowadays. Wondering if it would be better to get a Pfizer (aka BioNTech) or a Chinese vaccine ...

I heard ranging from tomorrow to Q4 but with cases spike up domestically, hopefully it is sooner than later.

On which one to take, I have done both. I just read somewhere that Singapore just announced mixing both if one chooses to take both in full or for booster.
My view is don't delay. Take it still better than not taking it. Take one and see how antibody develops in your body and see if you need to redo with a different type of just as booster. Each body reacts different to different vaccine.

I'm still in the US so I haven't been keeping up to date on this stuff, but I'm happy that I got Sinopharm before I left because the Chinese are obviously cool with it.

I also got Pfizer here (second dose tomorrow).

On a related note, I'm getting closer and closer to attempting to fly back via Thailand. If I take the plunge, I'll apply for an actual Thai visa which would give me up to 90 days to sort things out over there, plus something more real than an entry stamp to show the PRC consulate. I'm also in no rush to do the quarantine drill.

I did Moderna a pretty long time ago so this could be my "booster" haha.

From what I understand Sinopharm (https://covid19.trackvaccines.org/vaccines/5/) and Sinovac (https://covid19.trackvaccines.org/vaccines/7/) are both 2 dose.
CanSino (https://covid19.trackvaccines.org/vaccines/2/) seems to be one dose:
Argentina: 7 day quarantine
Chile: non residents cannot enter
Ecuador: seems to be rolling out https://www.elcomercio.com/tendencia...n-ecuador.html
Hungary: I did some poking around and they seem to be giving Sinopharm instead
Malaysia: non residents cannot enter
Mexico: might be possible
Pakistan: need >6 month visa but seems doable Pakistan rolls out locally produced Chinese CanSino vaccine - Xinhua | English.news.cn