Spring Airlines Further Reduces Japan Service in NW25
Published at 1000PST / 1800GMT 15DEC25
Chinese carrier Spring Airlines in the last two weeks continues to revise planned service to Japan for the remainder of Northern winter 2025/26 season, which now sees slightly over 50% reductions by late-December 2025. Latest service changes, comparing to frequency filed as of 16NOV25, as follows.
This post focuses on Spring Airlines (9C), not including Spring Airlines Japan (IJ).
Cancellations:
Dalian – Fukuoka eff 28NOV25 1 weekly service cancelled
Guangzhou – Osaka Kansai eff 15DEC25 4 weekly service cancelled
Nanjing – Osaka Kansai eff 01DEC25 1 daily service cancelled
Ningbo – Osaka Kansai eff 15DEC25 1 daily service cancelled
Shanghai Pu Dong – Ibaraki eff 01DEC25 3 weekly service cancelled
Shenyang – Osaka Kansai eff 15DEC25 6 weekly service cancelled
Shijiazhuang – Tokyo Narita eff 01DEC25 2 weekly service cancelled
Tianjin – Osaka Kansai eff 01DEC25 1 daily service cancelled
Xi’An – Osaka Kansai eff 01DEC25 3 weekly service cancelled
Yangzhou – Osaka Kansai eff 01DEC25 3 weekly service cancelled
Service reductions include the following.
Dalian – Osaka Kansai eff 01DEC25 Reduce from 7 to 4 weekly, 3 from 10DEC25
Shanghai Pu Dong – Fukuoka eff 15DEC25 Reduce from 14 to 10 weekly
Shanghai Pu Dong – Nagoya 1 daily service unchanged
Shanghai Pu Dong – Okinawa The airline cancelled service 08DEC25 – 21DEC25. 2 weekly flights tentatively listed instead of 7 weekly from 22DEC25
Shanghai Pu Dong – Osaka Kansai eff 01DEC25 Reduce from 46 to 39 weekly (34 weekly for the week of 14-20DEC25. The airline originally scheduled up to 63 weekly by second half of January 2026)
Shanghai Pu Dong – Saga eff 01DEC25 Reduce from 4 to 2 weekly
Shanghai Pu Dong – Sapporo New Chitose eff 01DEC25 Reduce from 2 to 1 daily
Shanghai Pu Dong – Takamatsu eff 01DEC25 Reduce from 3 to 2 weekly
Shanghai Pu Dong – Tokyo Haneda 4 weekly service unchanged
Shanghai Pu Dong – Tokyo Narita 1 daily service unchanged
For December 2025, the airline now schedules 396 flights (one-way from China to Japan) on 13 routes with 75228 seats (as of 14DEC25), compared to 689 flights on 19 routes with 137238 seats (as of 16NOV25). For January 2026, the airline schedules 371 flights on 10 routes with 68868 seats, compared to 768 flights on 20 routes with 148584 seats. Between 01JAN26 and 31JAN26, the airline slashes 51.7% of flights while capacity being reduced by 54%.