The number of people who used domestic flights during the Obon holiday increased by about 1.7 times from last year, and major airlines recovered to about 80% of the level before the spread of the new corona infection.
According to 11 major domestic airlines, over 3.3 million people used domestic flights during the 11 days from the 6th to the 16th of this month during the Obon holiday period, and due to the influence of the new corona, 6 It has increased about 1.7 times since the same time last year when the state of emergency was declared in the prefecture.
Of these, on the 14th of this month, when the U-turn peaked at All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines, the number of users per day was the highest since the spread of the infection, and the two companies combined totaled about 248,000.
As a result, the number of users of both companies during this period has recovered to about 80% compared to three years ago before the spread of infection.
In addition, according to ANA and Japan Airlines, although the growth in reservations has temporarily slowed down since the middle of last month when the infection began to spread again nationwide, the growth has recovered since the beginning of August. "It seems that there were many people who made reservations just before while watching the situation."
On the other hand, the number of international passengers was more than 276,000, which is about 4.7 times more than last year due to the relaxation of border measures in each country, and is gradually recovering mainly on resort routes.