The Chinese government's relaxation of crown disease's epidemic control has led to an increase in demand for aviation travel, and Chinese airlines are rapidly increasing domestic flight arrangements, which may marked a good situation in the global aviation industry.
The Wall Street Journal reported that China was close to the United States and became the world's largest aviation market before the epidemic.One of the countries.Now, after the Chinese government relaxs the rigorous dynamic zero -zero policy, Chinese airlines are increasing flights and providing discounts and promotional activities to attract passengers to re -fly on their planes.
The impact of the relaxation of epidemic control on China is almost immediate.According to data from the Aviation Analysis Company Cirium, on December 12, that is, China has canceled cross -regional travel restrictions a few days after a few days, the total number of domestic flights has increased by 158%compared with November 28 to 7,290.
State -owned Enterprise China Oriental Airlines said on Wednesday (December 14) on the official Weibo that the number of flight volume ushered in a rapid recovery period, especially domestic flight volume, and has continued to rise rapidly in the past few days.
Oriental Airlines stated in the same post that compared with 543 times on December 1, domestic flights increased by more than 150%; transport passengers nearly 140,000 were nearly 140%compared to the beginning of the month.
It is reported that most of the number of flights is still at the level or lower than the earlier level of this year, as well as the same period last year, and the surge in flights is mainly limited to domestic routes, which benefit Chinese airlines.
International flights, especially the flights operated by Western airlines, are still very small. Chinese passengers still face obstacles to travel overseas, and international passengers entering China still need to be isolated.According to Cirium's data, most of the time this year, the number of flights in and out of China has always been more than 80%lower than the pre -epidemic level.
The heating of domestic travel activities appeared after relaxation of epidemic control in China.These prevention and control measures are considered to suppress China's growth and crack down on China's tourism industry.
In November, China relaxed a series of epidemic prevention and control regulations, shortened the isolation period of entry passengers, and canceled the fuse mechanism.The fuse mechanism has caused a large number of international flights to be canceled at the last moment.
At the beginning of December, the Chinese government further relaxed the restrictions on prevention and control and canceled the nucleic acid testing requirements entering public places and traveling between domestic regions.
China Southern Airlines, China, the largest passenger volume, said that in view of the adjustment of epidemic prevention regulations, the company is increasing new flights, including domestic routes that operate the most existing voyages: round -trip round -trip from Guangzhou to Altay Cityroute.The voyage takes about six hours.Altay is a city close to northwestern China and the Russian border.
Spring and Autumn Airlines headquartered in Shanghai said that the recent air ticket search volume was more than twice the same period last year.The company also started flights to the forthcoming January Spring Festival holiday to provide a short price of RMB 99 (about S $ 19.20) to the popular vacation destinations across the country.
Ctrip of China online tourism service provider said that on the day of the latest relaxation of the epidemic control plan, the search volume of domestic tourism routes increased by 74%compared to the previous week.Ctrip said that on the same day, the domestic tourism search volume during the Spring Festival holiday increased by 172%over the previous week.