Have all the tourists stranded in China and Belgium due to the Russian Airlines incident returned to China?

Beijing, Sept. 28 (Xinhua)-It is reported that Vim Airlines recently announced that it will cancel all flights to chartered flight due to insufficient operating funds, resulting in hundreds of China tourists stranded in Russia and Belgium. This afternoon, the Embassy and Consulate of China in Belgium confirmed to Voice of China that up to now, all China tourists stranded in Belgium have returned home. China's embassy and consulate in Russia said that relevant work is still in progress.

According to the announcement issued by the Russian Tourism Agency, Vim Airlines canceled all flights to chartered flight, which caused more than 30,000 tourists to be prevented from entering Russia, and more than 31000 tourists were forced to stay in Russia, including about 500 citizens of China. At present, Russian citizens stranded in China are returning home one after another.

Affected by this, there are 34 1 China tourists stranded in Belgium. They traveled to Europe by Zhongxin Travel Agency chartered flight from Shenyang and other places, and were scheduled to return to China at Liege Airport on the morning of 25th. This afternoon, the Embassy and Consulate of China in Belgium told Voice of China that at present, all the 34/kloc-0 tourists stranded in China have returned to China.

A travel practitioner told reporters that WIM Airlines is not very large in scale, but many tour groups will choose the company's flights because of its time and price advantages. China Zhongxin Tourism also signed a three-year strategic cooperation agreement with the airline in March this year. The two sides decided to start scheduled flights from Beijing, Guangzhou, Xi, Shenyang and Changsha to Moscow or St. Petersburg in Russia in April this year. Obviously, the cooperation between the two sides cannot continue. The reporter tried to contact Zhongxin Travel today, but no one answered the phone.

Previously, the person in charge of Zhongxin told the media that after the incident, Zhongxin Tourism set up a special handling team, requiring relevant personnel such as the air ticket department, visa department, product department, customer service center and team leader to coordinate all resources to deal with the impact of this unexpected incident.

In addition, platforms including Ctrip and Kyushu Popular Travel Agency are also handling the return of tourists. Yong Yang, public affairs manager of Ctrip. com in Central China, said that apart from stranded passengers, the Vim aviation incident will also have an impact on the upcoming Golden Week outbound tour.

Russian President Vladimir Putin severely criticized Russian Deputy Prime Minister Devall Covic and Minister of Transport sokolov for this, saying that they did not pay enough attention to the work in the transportation field, so that the situation was "out of control". At the same time, Putin criticized sokolov for being "incompetent" and asked him to handle the Vim Airlines incident "quickly and efficiently" and strengthen the supervision of the entire transportation industry.

It is understood that by the end of this year, Vim Airlines should also transport 200,000 passengers, and the Russian investigation commission launched a criminal investigation against Vim Airlines on the grounds of suspected misappropriation of passengers' property.