China’s first private airline, Okay Airlines, announced that it would suspend its passenger service for a month. Okay Airlines is so behind in its bills that airports are demanding cash to refuel its planes.
A slowing economy is hurting all of China’s airlines but the privately owned airlines are hurting the worst because the Chinese government isn’t handing out millions of bailouts to them.
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