March 16 (Reuters) - Following are responses from airlines from several countries following Japan's earthquake and tsunami and subsequent crisis at a nuclear power complex.
Workers were briefly ordered to withdraw from a stricken nuclear power plant on Wednesday after radiation levels surged.
AUSTRALIA
-- Qantas will route its flights to Tokyo via Hong Kong from Wednesday evening so that the crew will not stay in Tokyo overnight, a spokesman said.
The change was for operational reasons and to ensure the crew is adequately rested given the situation in Japan, he said.
Qantas runs a daily service to Tokyo from Sydney and three services a week from Perth.
AUSTRIA
-- Austrian Airlines said all of its flights to Tokyo's Narita have making stopovers in Seoul since Tuesday.
BRITAIN
-- Virgin Atlantic said there were no changes to Tokyo flight schedules. The airline said it flies once a day to Narita and was monitoring the situation.
-- British Airways said it has made no changes to schedules so far to Tokyo's Narita and Haneda airports. It flies to Narita once a day and Haneda five times a week. BA is offering passengers who planned to travel before April 10 the option to change to change travel dates up to Sept. 30.
CHINA
-- Air China said it had cancelled some flights to Tokyo from Beijing and Shanghai, mainly due to lack of operational capacity at some airports, but is still operating 30 round trip flights a day(www.airchina.com.cn).
-- China Eastern Airlines suspended flights from Shanghai to Fukushima, but other flights between China and Japan were still operating and it was adding an extra flight to Tokyo on Thursday to help Chinese citizens get home.
-- China South Airlines said it had cancelled one flight from Changchun to Sendai, which was badly hit by the tsunami, between March 14 and March 26. It added one more flight to Tokyo on Wednesday to get Chinese citizens back.
FRANCE/NETHERLANDS: Air France-KLM between Tuesday and Sunday has increased capacity on its two daily flights from Paris to Tokyo to 944 seats in total from the usual 871. In addition, these two flights make a stopover in Seoul. The airline moved all its crew out of Tokyo to Osaka on Monday.
FINLAND
-- Finnair said it was still flying to Tokyo as normal.
GERMANY
-- Deutsche Lufthansa said it was continuing to fly to Japan but was diverting flights away from Tokyo to Osaka and Nagoya via Seoul until at least the weekend.
HONG KONG
-- Cathay Pacific said it was monitoring the situation carefully and so far there had been no indications that flight operations to Japan were likely to be affected.
ITALY
-- Alitalia said it plans to divert all flights to Tokyo to Osaka starting March 17. Alitalia runs 14 flights per week to Tokyo's Narita from Rome and Milan and four flights per week to Osaka.
JAPAN
-- All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines said there had been no schedule changes in their flights from Tokyo to overseas destinations.
MALAYSIA
-- Malaysia's AirAsia , Asia's largest budget carrier by fleet size, and Malaysian Airline System , the country's national carrier, said they were flying to Tokyo without any disruptions to schedule yet.
-- The Malaysian Atomic Energy and Licensing Board has started scanning flights originating from Japan for radiation at Malaysian Airports.
NEW ZEALAND
-- Air New Zealand flights to Tokyo were continuing as per schedule for the time being but were being reviewed in the light of new information.
PHILIPPINES
-- Cebu Air , operator of budget carrier Cebu Pacific, said it had no plans for now to cancel its three times weekly flights to Osaka.
-- Philippine Airlines said it was closely monitoring the situation in Japan, but at the moment its operations centre had determined no threat to its operations. The airline flies to Narita, Kansai, Nagoya and Fukuoka 32 times weekly.
SINGAPORE
-- Singapore Airlines said on its website that it was closely monitoring developments in Japan but that at this point, all its flights to and from Japan are operating as scheduled.
SRI LANKA
Sri Lankan Airlines said it would, at the request of the foreign ministry, add additional flights to and from Japan from Wednesday to facilitate the return of any Sri Lankans there.
SWEDEN
-- SAS said flights were operating to Japan as normal, but a stopover in Beijing would be added for flights between Wednesday and Friday due to a need for extra crew members to help establish a temporary base in Beijing.
SWITZERLAND
-- Swiss International Air Lines said the airline was flying once a day to Tokyo with an interim stop in Hong Kong, allowing them to reassess the situation and shorten turnaround time in Tokyo. Crews change in Hong Kong.
TAIWAN
-- China Airlines said it had no plans to cancel flights, but may consider it at a later date.
-- EVA Airways said it would cancel flights to Tokyo and Sapporo until the end of March.
THAILAND
-- Thai Airways International was still flying to Japan as normal.
TURKEY
Turkish airlines said on its website it was flying as normal to Japan.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
- Emirates said on its website it was flying as normal to Japan.
UNITED STATES
-- Two major U.S. airlines with big trans-pacific operations, American Airlines and Delta Air Lines Inc , said that they were not cancelling flights and that operations were continuing as normal.
-- Continental also said on its website it was flying as normal.
-- Boeing Co said on Tuesday it had no plans to evacuate employees from Japan and expected no major impact on suppliers after Japan's earthquake.
VIETNAM
Vietnam Airlines was running flights to Japan as normal, but said in a statement that passengers with tickets for flights to or from Japan between March 11 and May 10 would be allowed to make changes or cancellations to the flights free of charge. (Reporting by Reuters Bureaux; Compiled by World Desk Asia; Editing by Alex Richardson)
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