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International airline association says China’s domestic air travel bookings reverting to 2019 patterns
May 4th 2021
Domestic travellers in China were not booking their air tickets as close to travel as they did during the height of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, figures from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) show. Read More » The airline lobby group said late last week 51% of domestic air travellers in China were booking their flights within three days of travel in April 2021. The figure was down 61% from March to May 2020 and much closer to the 48% levels of April 2019, IATA said, suggesting "booking behaviours have almost reverted to pre-crisis times". Passengers globally continued to make the decision to fly late, despite the recovery in domestic travel, with 33% booking their tickets within three days of travel and 49% within a week of travel in April 2021, IATA said. The numbers compared with 26% and 38%, respectively, in April 2019.
