Author: Chen Shanshan
With the gradual relaxation of epidemic control policies in various places, domestic airlines have finally ushered in the expected summer season.
Yesterday, airline stocks were red across the board, and most of them continued to rise at the opening today. Behind this, the single-day flight volume of civil aviation exceeded 10,000 for 3 consecutive days.
From June 24th to 26th, the number of single-day civil aviation flights reached 10,609, 10,083, and 10,198 respectively, and the overall recovery was about 60% before the epidemic; the single-day passenger traffic reached 896,000, 830,000, and 851,000 respectively. The number of passengers has recovered to about 49.4% before the epidemic.
In the previous three months, the number of civil aviation flights continued to decline, and the daily flight volume at the lowest point was only 18% of the normal period.
After entering May, as the epidemic prevention and control situation in various places gradually improved, civil aviation flights also began to rebound. After entering June, the recovery speed further accelerated. The number of single-day flights increased from 6,489 flights at the beginning of the month to a maximum of 10,609 flights, and single-day passenger transportation. The number increased from 445,000 at the beginning of the month to a peak of 896,000.
Statistics from flight stewards show that in the past week, the number of flights operated by civil aviation in China was nearly 57,000, and the average daily number of flights was 8,134, an increase of 10.3% from the previous week and a decrease of 28.2% from the same period in 2021. was 52.0%.
The top 10 airlines in terms of flight volume are Sichuan Airlines (66.6%), Loong Air (60.9%), Hainan Airlines (59.6%), and China Southern Airlines ranks first among the three airlines with a flight performance rate of 57.7%. Air China's flight execution rates were 52.5% and 40.4% respectively.
Among the tens of millions of airports, Guangzhou Baiyun Airport ranks first in the number of inbound and outbound flights.
The top three flight cancellation rates were Shanghai Pudong (91.3%), Shanghai Hongqiao (90.4%), and Beijing Daxing (80.8%). The airports with relatively low cancellation rates were Urumqi Diwopu (24.2%) and Hangzhou Xiaoshan (25.1%). %), Chengdu Shuangliu (25.9%).
It is worth noting that after Shanghai fully resumed normal production and life on June 1, flights departing from Shanghai also began to gradually resume, especially after the isolation policies for Shanghai sojourners were gradually relaxed in various places.
Just last week, after Hainan took the lead in announcing that non-positive street personnel from Shanghai do not need to be quarantined in Hainan, air tickets from Shanghai to Sanya began to be hard to come by.
To this end, many airlines have successively replaced narrow-body aircraft with wide-body large aircraft, but recently, many flights from Shanghai to Sanya have soared to full price, and only business class is left at some moments.
Data from Flight Manager shows that from June 1 to 27, the number of airlines flying from Shanghai to Sanya increased from 2 to 11. Before the 24th, there were no wide-body aircraft, and half of them were wide-body aircraft on the 24th. On the 24th, the passenger load factor also exceeded 91%.
Qunar big data shows that the number of air tickets to Sanya last weekend (6.25-6.26) increased by 93% compared with the previous weekend (6.18-6.19), and the number of air tickets to Haikou increased by 92%. It was originally the off-season for tourism in Sanya.
Last night, Sichuan also relaxed the control measures for people with a history of living in Shanghai and Beijing, and the price of flights from Shanghai to Chengdu has also been increased recently.
For a long time, the two quarters of Chunyun and Shuyun have been the key to the airline's profitability throughout the year.
During last year's Summer Games, although all airlines had made great efforts to make adequate plans, they could not avoid being forced to cancel flights due to public safety reasons brought about by the epidemic.
Many people in the industry predict that the civil aviation industry, which was hit by the impact of the epidemic, rising oil prices, and depreciation of the exchange rate in the first half of this year, may have come out of the bottom, and the future summer transportation will be booming.
At the same time, the price of crude oil has also declined recently, and the depreciation of the RMB has also slowed down, which means a reduction in exchange losses and a reduction in fuel costs for airlines, resulting in further improvement in performance.