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China Eastern Airlines records 284% domestic passenger jump during Lunar holiday month
March 16th 2021
China Eastern Airlines' (CEA) monthly traffic report, published yesterday, showed it flew 3.9 million passengers on its domestic network in February, a 283.8% increase from one million customers transported a year earlier. Read More » Compared with pre-COVID-19 levels, the February 2021 figures were down 55.8%, from the 8.7 million domestic passengers CEA flew in February two years ago. Domestic passenger load factor was up 17.9 percentage points, at 62.7% year-on-year, from 44.8% previously, CEA said. Capacity increased 181.1% over February 2020. CEA's international network remained subdued with passenger numbers declining by 95% year-on-year. Separately, CEA said it had returned to service its last stored aircraft at Shanghai Pudong Airport. The SkyTeam member said its parked aircraft had gone down from a peak of 42 in June 2020 to 23 by mid-August and 20 at the close of calendar 2020.
