For airlines, China boom now exposes them to risk as coronavirus slams market

). About 450 million more passengers fly to, from and within China per year compared with a decade ago, according to the IATA.

Mike Boyd, head of U.S.-based aviation consultancy Boyd Group International, said that he had forecast airport traffic in China to rise 8.1% in 2020, but that he now sees traffic growing at less than half that rate.Cathay Pacific, already battered by a fall in demand because of anti-government protests in its home market of Hong Kong, said on Tuesday evening it would cut flights to mainland China by 50% or more through the end of March.

During the time of Lunar New Year, the Spring festival of China, a deadly outbreak of the coronavirus has emerged in the city of Wuhan. The question then arises,'What is the coronavirus? How dangerous is it?.' Facts Coronavirus Health Epidemic

With recycled air and the claims the virus can be spread before symptoms are displayed, aren't flights in and out still posing a huge risk for all countries?

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