On the 14th, China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited(600115) released the operation data of March 2022. The passenger turnover (calculated by passenger kilometers) decreased by 69.32% year-on-year, of which the passenger turnover of China, international and regional routes decreased by 70.01%, 16.00% and 35.91% year-on-year respectively.
China Eastern Airlines said that affected by the epidemic, in March, China Eastern Airlines' passenger transport capacity investment (calculated by available seat kilometers) decreased by 62.35% year-on-year, of which the passenger transport capacity investment of Chinese, international and regional routes decreased by 63.07%, 38.8% and 11.48% year-on-year respectively; The occupancy rate was 59.43%, a year-on-year decrease of 13.50 percentage points, of which the occupancy rate of Chinese and regional routes decreased by 13.88 and 14.55 percentage points respectively year-on-year, and the occupancy rate of international routes increased by 13.38 percentage points.
In terms of cargo transportation, the company's cargo business includes passenger plane cargo business under normal circumstances (mainly passenger plane belly compartment business) and passenger plane cargo business under unconventional circumstances (mainly "passenger to cargo" business), and this business has been exclusively operated by China Cargo Airlines Co., Ltd. In March 2022, the freight and mail turnover (calculated by freight and mail ton kilometers) decreased by 17.75% year-on-year.
In March, China Eastern Airlines opened a new Chongqing Zhaotong route.
In March, the company withdrew one A350 aircraft. By the end of March 2022, the company had operated 751 aircraft in total, including 262 self owned aircraft, 273 financial leasing aircraft and 216 operating leasing aircraft.
