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Searches for inbound passenger flight ticket on Chinese online travel agency Tongcheng in October has surged 63% from that in September, and booking volume rose by 28%, according to data from Tongcheng.
The average price for the flights has declined by 30% from the previous month, as airlines have been resuming many international passenger flight, showed the data.
Prices for flights from Madrid to Beijing tumbled by 80%, Manila to Wuhan and Xiamen down 78% and 73%, respectively, showed the data.
Prices for flights from Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Singapore and Ho Chi Minh City to Chinese cities declined by more than 50%, according to Tongcheng.
Separate data from online travel agency Qunar.com showed that online searches for international passenger flights so far in October has surged by about 90% from the same period in the previous month, with flights routes Shanghai-Taipei, Hong Kong-Nanjing, Shanghai-Macau and Qingdao-Seoul among the most popular, according to online travel agency Qunar.com.
The average paid flight ticket prices have been falling since September, down 20% month on month, according to Qunar.com.
Chinese airlines have been resuming many international passenger flights. Read more …
China Eastern Airlines, one of the country’s three largest state-owned carriers, said last week that it will resume several international passenger routes including Shanghai-Bangkok-Qingdao, Hangzhou/Qingdao/Nanjing/Kunming – Tokyo Narita, Qingdao/Nanjing/Yantai – Seoul Incheon, Qingdao-Dubai.
Its weekly international passenger flights will rise to 42 lines and 108 flights after the latest adjustments, compared to 25 lines and 54 flights at the start of October, the carrier said.
According to data from flight data provider Variflight, China’s International passenger flights reached 103 on Oct 16, 2.2 times the 41 flights on June 4, but representing only around 5% of that in the same period in 2019 before the pandemic struck.