Chinese embrace summer holiday flying, passenger traffic reaches 9 mn
The summer holiday season started with a bang for China’s aviation sector, with passenger traffic at the country’s airports reaching almost 9 million — about the population of Switzerland — in the first five days of July.
Free from grueling Covid restrictions at last, Chinese travelers are seizing the moment. July 1-5 passenger traffic at airports was 14% higher than in the same period in 2019, before the Covid crisis, data from travel platform Trip.com Group Ltd. show.
Expensive airfares aren’t a deterrent either. The average price for domestic tickets was 21% higher on average than at the start of July four years ago, and 22% higher for international routes, according to Trip.com.
