open the door to U.S. carriers United Airlines and Delta Air Lines resuming one flight per week each into the country. The Transportation Department said it will let Chinese passenger airlines fly a combined total of two round-trip flights per week between the U.S.
and China, which it said would equal the number of flights that China's aviation authority will allow for U.S. carriers. United and Delta did not comment immediately on the latest development in the dispute between the two countries and how it will affect their plans.
Both had hoped to offer more flights. The dispute between Washington and Beijing over airline service has been building for weeks and is part of broader trade and diplomatic tension between the world's two biggest.