China News Service, Harbin, February 17 (Qiu Jian, Liu Ye) Harbin Airport announced on the 17th that during the Spring Festival Golden Week, Harbin Airport guaranteed a total of 4,107 flight takeoffs and landings, transporting 678,000 passengers, a year-on-year increase of 21.0% and 31.9% respectively. , both hitting record highs.

Photo courtesy of Harbin Airport Security Hall Harbin Airport

　　During the Spring Festival holiday, the tourism market is booming. The ice and snow in the north and the spring land in the south create a hot scene of people rushing to the north and the south. In particular, ice and snow tourism continues to heat up, and Harbin’s popularity has exploded, attracting an influx of Chinese and foreign tourists.

　　Data shows that from February 11th to 13th, the single-day passenger flow of Harbin Airport remained at a high level of more than 85,000 passengers. At the same time, southern cities such as Guangzhou, Sanya, Shenzhen, and Xishuangbanna, which are rich in hot springs, islands and other tourism resources and have a pleasant climate, are popular destinations for cold escapes and are favored by northern people. The passenger occupancy rate of flights from Harbin to the above cities exceeds 90%.

　　Harbin welcomed tourists from all over the country during the Spring Festival and became one of the top ten destinations in China with the highest occupancy rate on the Meituan platform. The scale of cultural tourism consumption increased by more than 106% year-on-year.

Photo by Jiang Wei, armed police patrol at Harbin Airport

　　With the end of the Golden Week of the Spring Festival, the flow of tourism, family visits, and migrant work are highly superimposed. On the 14th, Harbin Airport saw a peak return passenger flow, with 87,000 passengers flying from Harbin to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xiamen, etc. Almost every flight in the city is full, and it is difficult to get a ticket.

　　In order to meet people's travel needs during the Spring Festival, Harbin Airport has flexibly adjusted its capacity allocation by increasing flights, changing aircraft types, etc. based on passenger flow conditions, focusing on increasing capacity deployment in hot cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Sanya, and Haikou. Every day There are more than 20 flights from Harbin to Beijing and Shanghai, and more than 10 flights to Shenzhen, Sanya, Haikou, Chengdu, Hangzhou, and Guangzhou. We coordinate the implementation of airlines' replacement of wide-body aircraft on popular routes.

　　In terms of international routes, Harbin Airport has formed an air traffic network that extends to neighboring countries such as Russia, Japan, and South Korea, as well as major European and American countries. Harbin Airport has added and restored 7 passenger navigation points, including Khabarovsk, Yakutsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, and Krasnoyarsk in Russia, Osaka in Japan, Jeju in South Korea, and Nha Trang in Vietnam, increasing the number of passengers in Harbin. Flights to cities such as Vladivostok and Irkutsk in Russia, Seoul in South Korea and Tokyo in Japan have increased to 11 international passenger navigation points, and the number of flights has increased from 7 flights per week at the beginning of the year to 52 flights per week . During the Spring Festival, the passenger occupancy rate of flights to South Korea and Japan reached 80%.

　　After the Spring Festival holiday, passenger traffic in popular tourist cities will drop rapidly, and hotel and air ticket prices will also drop significantly, making it suitable for off-peak travel. Combined with the upcoming flower viewing season, it is expected that there will be a new wave of tourism peak from February to March after the Spring Festival holiday.

　　Ctrip data shows that compared with the Spring Festival holiday and the week before the holiday, destinations with higher average air ticket price decreases in the two weeks after the holiday include Sanya, Xishuangbanna, Harbin and other places. (over)