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Five million passengers took Mainland domestic flights during Lunar New Year
February 11th 2022
Airlines in China transported five million passengers on domestic flights during the recent Lunar New Year holiday, up 40.2% from the prior year's numbers, figures from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) show. Read More » When compared with pre-COVID-19 levels, the 2022 figures are less than half the 12.8 million passengers who travelled during the 2019 seven-day Lunar New Year national holiday. The peak travel day was February 6, the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, when 1.23 million travellers took a flight. Scheduled services in the 2022 seven-day period rose 33.3%, to 62,744. Passenger load factor was up 0.75 of a percentage point year-on-year, to 58.3%. The top five airports, measured by passenger traffic, were Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Kunming and Shenzhen, the CAAC said.
