Airlines Get Conflicting Guidance on Chinese ADIZ
Japan’s All Nippon Airways has stopped submitting special flight plans to overfly a new Chinese ADIZ.
Japan’s All Nippon Airways has stopped submitting special flight plans to overfly a new Chinese ADIZ.

The U.S. State Department said it “generally expects” that U.S. airlines honor notices to airmen (Notams) issued by foreign countries, while Japan has told its airlines to disregard China’s newly declared Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over part of the East China Sea. The conflicting guidance comes as tensions rise over how to address what the U.S., Japan, Taiwan and South Korea agree amounts to illegal territorial assertions on the part of China.