On February 25, the Civil Aviation Administration held a press conference at which Xu Qing, deputy director of the transportation department of the Civil Aviation Administration, said that the Spring Festival transportation in 2022 lasted 40 days, with 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 reported that in terms of flight arrangement, civil aviation actually flew 464000 flights, with a daily average of 11600, an increase of 30.3% year-on-year in 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 also said that on the whole, although the number of passengers traveling during the Spring Festival transportation this year has not returned to the level before the epidemic, it has increased significantly compared with 2021. The passenger transport volume of the sixth brigade reached 1.23 million at the beginning of the first month. Since then, the passenger transport volume of the sixth brigade has 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 top routes in terms of transportation volume mainly include “Beijing to Sanya”, “Guangzhou to Beijing”, “Shanghai to Beijing” and “Guangzhou to Chengdu”.