China Eastern Becomes Third Major Airline to Pull Its Flights From Qunar

Photo Credit: A China Eastern Airbus A332 as seen on January 29, 2015. Flickr / Master Octa
Skift Take
Ctrip didn't realize the extent of the problem it would inherit with its acquisition of Qunar given the latter's disputes with China's largest airlines. The direct-booking wars are acute in China, where the government has called on the airlines to sell half of their tickets on their own websites by 2018.