On February 25, the Civil Aviation Administration held a press conference. Xu Qing, deputy director of the transportation department of the Civil Aviation Administration, introduced that during the 40 day spring festival transportation, civil aviation transported 39.82 million passengers and 996000 passengers per day, an increase of 12.5% over the same period in 2021, an increase of 3.8% over 2020 and a decrease of 45.3% over 2019.
It is understood that from January 17 to February 25, 2022 Spring Festival transportation has actually flown 464000 flights, with a daily average of 11600, an increase of 30.3% over 2021, an increase of 2.4% over 2020 and a decrease of 13.1% over 2019. The average occupancy rate is 64.23%, basically the same as that in 2021; The average normal flight rate was 95.94%, an increase of 2.26 percentage points year-on-year in 2021.
Xu Qing said that in general, although the number of Spring Festival passenger trips in 2022 did not return to the pre epidemic level, it increased significantly compared with 2021. The passenger traffic volume of the sixth brigade reached 1.23 million in the first month, and exceeded 1 million for 20 consecutive days.
In terms of airports, the airports with the highest passenger traffic volume include Guangzhou Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport Company Limited(600004) , Chongqing Jiangbei Airport, Chengdu Shuangliu Airport, Kunming Changshui airport, Shanghai Pudong Airport and Shenzhen Bao’an airport, especially Guangzhou Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport Company Limited(600004) with nearly 4 million passengers.
From the perspective of popular routes, there is a strong demand for routes between Chengdu and Chongqing in the Pearl River Delta and between Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and Northeast China and Hainan, with high passenger volume, flight volume and seating rate. The routes with the highest transportation volume mainly include “Beijing = Sanya”, “Guangzhou = Beijing”, “Shanghai = Beijing”, “Guangzhou = Chengdu”, “Beijing = Chengdu” and “Chengdu = Sanya”.