The May Day holiday is approaching
Airfares have taken a temporary plunge
Many early ticket buyers shouted that they were at a loss
What's going on?
According to the first professional platform to provide civil aviation data analysis services in China, "Feichang Zhun Data", domestic airports are expected to take off and land a total of 151612 flights during the May Day holiday this year, with an average daily takeoff and landing of 30,322 flights, an increase of 8.99% over last year's May Day holiday and an increase of 36.2% compared with 2019.
This year's May Day holiday will break last year's record and usher in the busiest May Day holiday in history.
At the same time, the average price of domestic economy class air tickets during the May Day holiday in the past 7 days was 852 yuan (excluding tax), down 1.13% year-on-year, and down 22% from the average price in the previous 7 days.
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Zhoushan routes to several popular tourist destinations
There are still low-cost direct flight tickets on May Day
For example, the ticket price from Zhoushan to Beijing starts at 625 yuan
The ticket price from Zhoushan to Xi'an starts at 600 yuan
The ticket price from Zhoushan to Chengdu starts at 380 yuan
The ticket price from Zhoushan to Quanzhou starts at 390 yuan
Image taken from Ctrip App
Faced with the situation of "expiring" ticket price reduction
Many netizens shouted that they were suffering
For the price of the ticket "diving"
Some netizens bought it expensively, saying that they were congested
Some netizens also said that they just picked up a bargain
Some netizens also said
Refunding and repurchasing tickets is cost-effective even if the handling fee is deducted
The picture is taken from netizen comments
According to the analysis of people in the civil aviation industry, there seems to be a contradiction between "busy" and "price reduction", but there is actually an internal connection. It is precisely because airlines have added too much capacity that the supply exceeds demand, and there are still many seats that have not been sold during the upcoming holidays, so the temporary price adjustment promotion can sell one by one.
According to the data of Feichang Zhun, during the May Day holiday, 41 domestic passenger airlines are expected to operate 77,327 flights, with an average of 15,500 flights per day. The number of flights of Middle East Airlines is expected to reach 12,322, ranking first. China Southern Airlines and Air China ranked second and third with 11,982 and 8,544 flights. Among the 41 airlines, 34 airlines are expected to achieve year-on-year growth in flight volume, of which China Express Airlines is expected to increase by 45.77%, the largest increase, and 39 airlines are expected to achieve growth compared with 2019, of which Chengdu Airlines is expected to increase by 1.11 times, the largest increase.
The picture comes from Feichang Zhun Big Data
In addition to the factors of airlines increasing capacity, the diversion of civil aviation passenger flow by high-speed rail is also the reason why the plane is not full and the ticket price temporarily dives.
Xiao Peng, a researcher at Qunar Big Data Research Institute, said: "Unlike last year's May Day 'family visit + tourism', this year's May Day tourists are mainly pure tourism. From the point of view of bookings, the number of tourists during this year's May Day holiday will exceed last year, but the average price paid for air tickets and hotels in popular tourist cities has declined, and data from the Qunar platform shows that as of April 10, hotel bookings in popular cities during this year's May Day holiday have increased by 30% year-on-year, and the average price of hotels has decreased by 20%. In addition, the afternoon of April 30, the morning of May 1 and May 5 are the peak travel periods, and the price of tickets for popular routes has not decreased during this period. ”
"First, compared with last year, the number of flights and hotel rooms have increased, and after the recovery of the supply chain, the relationship between supply and demand tends to be reasonable; second, with the joint efforts of tourism platforms, merchants and market supervision departments, the undesirable phenomenon of malicious price increases and price gouging has been suppressed, and the tourism market environment is healthier; third, with more and more domestic small city destinations being discovered, and outbound travel resumed, tourists no longer gather in big cities, relieving the pressure on big cities. Xiao Peng said that if the tourists who have not yet determined the May Day travel plan, where they can go if they have a ticket, "picking up the missing tour" may become the mainstream of this year's May Day holiday.
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