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TOKYO: Japan Airlines said Wednesday more than 1,000 people had cancelled reservations for flights between Japan and China amid a row over Tokyo's detention of a Chinese trawler captain in disputed waters.
"If they continue cancelling our flights, we may have to look at the possibility of reducing the number of flights," JAL president Masaru Onishi told a regular news conference.
"If the situation lasts long, it will hit our revenue by billions of yen," he said.
JAL, which has been restructuring after going under in January, is operating flights between four airports in Japan and Chinese cities including Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin.
China reacted angrily after Japan on September 8 arrested the captain saying he rammed his boat into two Japanese coastguard patrol boats in the East China Sea near Japan-administered islands, known as "Senkaku" in Japan and "Diaoyu" in China.
Japanese public prosecutors released the captain last week but Beijing continued to suspend high-level diplomatic contacts with Tokyo and allegedly choked exports of rare earth minerals to Japan.
-AFP/wk
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