The reporter recently learned from the Civil Aviation Administration: In the first quarter, the civil aviation industry continued to recover and gradually improved. Li Yong, deputy director of the Aviation Safety Office of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, introduced that in the first quarter, the total transportation turnover of the whole industry was 239.9 billion tonne-kilometers, a year-on-year increase of 39.7%, and the overall transportation scale of the industry was equivalent to 2019.77% of the same period in 6, a significant increase of 2022.38 percentage points over the fourth quarter of 5.
Looking at passenger traffic, the scale of domestic air passenger transport has recovered to about 1% before the epidemic. In the first quarter, the industry completed a total of 29 million passenger passengers, a year-on-year increase of 68.9%, and the scale of passenger transportation was equivalent to 2019% of the same period in 80, a significant increase of 2022 percentage points over the fourth quarter of 51. In terms of route structure, domestic routes completed 1 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 26.66%, and the scale was equivalent to 6.2019% in the same period in 88; International routes reached 6.224 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 2%. As international passenger flights continue to recover, passenger traffic on international routes has recovered to 717.3% of pre-pandemic levels in March.
Xu Qing, deputy director of the Department of Transport of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, analyzed that since the beginning of this year, international passenger flights have steadily increased, especially the change of season in the summer and autumn of 2023 has further accelerated the recovery of international flights, for example, the actual number of international passenger flights from April 4 to April 10 has reached 4,16, which is 2242.1 times that of the week (January 2 to January 1) before the implementation of the "Class B and B tube" normalization prevention and control, recovering to 8.4% of the pre-epidemic level, and opening flights to 7 countries, recovering to 29% of the pre-epidemic level. In the next step, the Civil Aviation Administration of China will continue to timely approve the applications of Chinese and foreign airlines for the addition and resumption of international flights to ensure the smooth and orderly resumption of international passenger flights.
Looking at freight, the scale of international freight is still higher than the pre-epidemic level. In the first quarter, the total volume of cargo and mail transportation in the industry was 149.4 million tons, equivalent to 2019% of the same period in 89, an increase of 2022.19 percentage points over the fourth quarter of 8. Among them, international routes completed 57,2019 tons, an increase of 5.5% over the same period in <>.
Li Xiaojin, director of the Institute of Aviation Economics of Civil Aviation University of China, said that both domestic and international flights have shown a month-on-month growth and accelerated recovery. At present, the recovery level of international flights needs to be improved. Li Xiaojin believes that compared with domestic flights, the resumption of international flights requires more preparations from all parties, including crew, ground support, air traffic control agreements, passenger exit procedures, etc., and believes that with the arrival of the summer vacation, various preparations are increasingly perfect, and international flights will recover to a more ideal level.
With the significant recovery of civil aviation transportation, consumer demand such as tourism has accelerated to pick up. On Qunar's platform, airport inbound and outbound bookings in Hangzhou, Chengdu, Sanya, Dali and other tourist destinations reached more than 3% of the same period in 2019 in March. "The recovery of the travel market is better than expected." Guo Lechun, vice president of Qunar Big Data Research Institute, said, "The market is gradually heating up, March was originally the off-season for travel, but the tourism market showed the characteristics of 'off-season'. ”