Our reporter Shi Lu

　　At 11:00 on January 18, Juneyao Airlines flight HO1325 took off smoothly from Shanghai Pudong International Airport, carrying 201 passengers to Chiang Mai, Thailand, and the passenger load factor of the first flight reached 99%.

In addition, Juneyao Airlines flight HO1321 to Phuket, Thailand also took off at 16:30.

　　This is currently the first batch of international scheduled passenger flights resumed by Chinese airlines, which is conducive to further promoting the healthy recovery of the outbound travel market and enhancing the vitality of the aviation market.

　　Sales data show that in the week when flights resumed, the average passenger load factor of the above two routes exceeded 80%.

With the increasing popularity of outbound tourism and the introduction of favorable policies, tourism demand will be continuously and orderly released.

　　Lan Xiang, dean of Qunar Big Data Research Institute, told the Securities Daily reporter, "Compared to the average price in 2019, the current international air ticket prices are at a high level, and it will take some time for the overall international flights to return to normal levels."

　　Will make efforts to cover the route network in Thailand

　　On the morning of January 18, Juneyao Airlines held a ceremony at Shanghai Pudong International Airport to celebrate the first resumption of scheduled international passenger flight operations from Shanghai Pudong to Chiang Mai and Phuket in Thailand.

"The aviation industry is steadily moving towards recovery, which is entirely due to the continuous implementation and optimization of various policies." Wang Junjin, chairman of Juneyao Airlines, told the "Securities Daily" reporter, "Successfully resumed the routes from Shanghai Pudong to Chiang Mai and Phuket, Thailand. The daily flight operation is a major milestone in the recovery of the aviation and tourism industries. We look forward to the restoration of more international and regional routes in the future, which will provide a steady stream of traffic power for the country’s continued high-level opening up.”

　　According to the flight arrangement plan, in addition to implementing one flight per day from Shanghai Pudong to Chiang Mai and Phuket in Thailand from January 18, 2023, Juneyao Airlines will also increase the number of flights from Shanghai Pudong to Phuket in the near future. 10 classes per week.

　　At the same time, Juneyao Airlines will continue to make efforts to cover the route network in Thailand. The Shanghai Pudong-Bangkok route has increased from one flight per week to seven flights per week. Among them, Juneyao Airlines’ flagship 787-9 Dreamliner will fly directly to Bangkok Sukhumvit on Wednesdays. Vannabhumi Airport and flights on other dates will land at Don Mueang Airport in Bangkok.

In the future, Juneyao Airlines will continue to increase the Shanghai Pudong-Bangkok route to 8 flights per week depending on the market and passenger flow conditions.

　　"2023 is the Year of Tourism in Thailand. We warmly welcome Chinese tourists to visit Thailand to experience the Thai culture with a long history and rich regional characteristics, and experience a new chapter in the magical Thailand." Luo Lan, director of the Shanghai Office of the Thailand National Tourism Administration, said at the ceremony "We look forward to the opening of more direct flights between Thailand and Juneyao Airlines in the future, so as to deepen the people-to-people and cultural exchanges between China and Thailand as a family and the traditional friendship between the two countries through the bridge of air transportation."

　　Civil aviation is on a fast fix

　　Recently, Wang Junhao, the controlling shareholder of JuneYao Airlines, the president of JuneYao Group and the chairman of JuneYao Health, publicly stated, "The aviation market is recovering rapidly. Not only are international flights full, but domestic flights have also returned to the level of 70% to 80%. When it arrives, it will continue to pick up, and it is believed that the number of flights on international routes will continue to increase.”

　　Guo Lechun, deputy director of Qunar Big Data Research Institute, believes that "the adjustment of entry and exit policies will help promote the orderly recovery of international flights, but limited by the approval of international flight arrangements, the supply of flights will not increase significantly. Currently, the number of planned flights is only 400. , even if all flights are only 10% of 2019, air ticket prices are still at a high level. However, we have also seen that direct international flights to and from China continue to increase, and the recovery momentum is gratifying.”

　　Huatai Securities stated in the research report that in the medium and long term, 2023 may become the year when my country's civil aviation recovery begins, and my country's civil aviation industry is expected to enter the recovery channel.

On the supply side, the gap between the slowdown of fleet growth and endogenous demand has accumulated year by year, which will become an important catalyst for the continued prosperity of the industry and provide impetus for the increase in airline revenue and profitability.

　　Huachuang Securities stated that in the first week of the Spring Festival travel (January 7 to January 13), the passenger volume of railways and civil aviation in a single day is close to about 80% of the same period of the 2019 Spring Festival, and the domestic civil aviation passenger volume has reached the same period of the 2019 Spring Festival. About 85% of the total.

On the eighth day of the Spring Festival travel season (January 14), civil aviation performed 12,028 passenger flights, recovering to 79.8% of the same period in the 2019 Spring Festival travel season, of which 11,752 were domestic flights, returning to 94.5% of the same period in the 2019 Spring Festival travel season.

　　Data show that from January 1 to 13, the volume of the three major airlines increased by 62.4% compared with December last year.

In addition, Spring Airlines increased by 23.8% month-on-month, Juneyao increased by 33.4%, and Huaxia increased by 28%.

In terms of ticket prices, the average ticket price of civil aviation on January 14 increased by 35% year-on-year, which was an increase of 8% compared with the same period in 2019.

　　From the perspective of airport passenger flow, since the Spring Festival travel this year, the average daily flight volume of Pudong Airport has been 692, an increase of 74% compared with the average daily flight volume in December last year, and the flight volume has recovered to 55% of the same period in the Spring Festival travel season in 2019; 936 flights, an average increase of 129% compared with December, and the flight volume has recovered to 74% of 2019. The average daily flight volume of Shenzhen Airport is 831, and the flight volume has recovered to 90% of 2019; the average daily flight volume of Sanya Airport is 383. The flight volume has recovered to 105% in 2019.

(Securities Daily)