As the New Year's Day holiday approaches, domestic air ticket bookings have increased significantly, and prices have risen month-on-month and year-on-year.
On December 28, The Paper learned from the online travel platform "Qunar" that since December 19, domestic air ticket bookings for New Year's Day have increased by 30% every day. On the 27th, the booking volume for the two days has increased significantly from the previous month.
Qunar platform data shows that the popular travel destinations on New Year's Day are Chengdu, Beijing, Sanya, Shanghai, Haikou, Chongqing, Kunming, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Xi'an.
From the point of view of origin, the booking volume in Beijing increased first. From December 23, the booking volume in Chengdu, Guangzhou, and Shanghai increased rapidly; the rapid growth period in Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and Chongqing began after the 25th.
During the New Year's Day period this year, the average price of one-way domestic air tickets was higher than that of the same period last year.
According to data from the Ctrip platform, as of December 27, the average price of domestic one-way air tickets during the New Year’s Day period was 823 yuan, an increase of 28% year-on-year, and an increase of 1% from the same period last week.
The same journey travel data shows that since December this year, domestic air ticket orders and prices have shown a "V-shaped" trend.
As of December 27, the average domestic one-way air ticket price in December was 709.3 yuan (excluding tax). Among them, the domestic average air ticket price on December 18 was the lowest, and then began to rise all the way. The domestic average air ticket price on December 27 was the highest. Compared with the 18th rose 28.5%.
At the same time, since December 18, domestic air ticket orders have also shown an overall growth trend, and the order volume on December 27 has increased by 34.4% compared with that on the 18th.
With the continuous optimization and adjustment of the recent epidemic prevention policy and the arrival of the Spring Festival at the end of the year, the civil aviation market has entered the fast lane of recovery. Many airlines, including China Eastern Airlines, Juneyao Airlines, and Suparna Airlines, have intensively stated that domestic passenger traffic is picking up and plan to increase capacity investment.
The recovery of the domestic air transport market will also proceed in three stages.
The Paper reporter previously learned from internal personnel of the airline company that the Civil Aviation Administration issued the "Work Plan for the Safe and Orderly Restoration of the Air Transport Market" on December 14, and made a specific guidance timetable for the phased recovery of the domestic air transport market. The first stage is from now until January 6, 2023, based on 70% of the average daily passenger flight volume in 2019, and the second stage is until January 31, 2023, based on the 2019 average daily passenger flight volume. 88% is the base for recovery, and the third stage will end on March 25, 2023. The industry is in a stable recovery period.
At present, domestic passenger flights have recovered to more than 50% of the pre-epidemic levels.
According to the data of the third-party civil aviation data APP "Flight Steward", on December 27, the national civil aviation carried out 6,139 domestic passenger flights, recovering to 52.3% of 2019.