With the advent of summer, the popularity of civil aviation travel continues to rise. The civil aviation market is expected to continue the peak season during the summer travel period, and the total number of passengers is expected to reach 133 million. In order to meet the travel needs of passengers, airlines continue to increase capacity and increase flights. What are the new domestic and foreign routes this summer? Where do you go? How much is airfare this summer? In this issue of "Hot Questions and Answers on Summer Luck", you have the answers to what you care about.
A number of popular routes are put into summer transportation Is there a route you want to go to?
Specifically, the northwest, southwest and other regions of domestic flights have the most additional flights. Air China will focus on increasing capacity in hot cities such as Chengdu and Chongqing, as well as summer destinations such as Yunnan, Guizhou and Hailar, and mainly add new routes to hot markets such as Xinjiang, Yunnan, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai and Tibet. China Southern Airlines is also mainly concentrated in popular tourist cities in Xinjiang, Northeast China, Northwest China, North China and other places. For the Xinjiang tourism market, China Southern Airlines has launched new routes between Shanghai, Shenzhen, Yinchuan, Changchun, Wuhan and Harbin and Altay.
In terms of international flights, Air China will launch 13 international flights in response to the hot spots of summer outbound flights, while China Eastern Airlines will mainly open a number of new routes to popular summer markets such as Europe, Southeast Asia, Japan and Australia.
It is worth noting that the European Championship and the Olympic Games have made Europe a major market for major airlines to increase their capacity. Juneyao Airlines' two new international routes in early July are intercontinental long-haul routes, and China Southern Airlines will also increase flights from Guangzhou to Paris, Amsterdam, Rome and other European routes.
Recently, as China has included Australia and New Zealand in the scope of unilateral visa-free countries, airlines are also increasing the number of flights to relevant destinations in an orderly manner.
Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, and Kunming ranked among the top five in terms of civil aviation bookings
Recently, the Civil Aviation Administration of China held a press conference to introduce the relevant situation of domestic and international popular routes during the summer travel period.
In view of the popular domestic routes, Xu Qing, deputy director of the Transportation Department of the Civil Aviation Administration, said that the domestic civil aviation passenger source is still concentrated in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, Chengdu-Chongqing four major urban agglomerations between the backbone routes, and the top five domestic civil aviation booking destinations are Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, and Kunming. With the rapid development of domestic county travel and folk culture tourism, domestic trunk and branch routes have attracted more and more attention from airlines, and the civil aviation market of tourist cities with regional characteristics such as Altay, Mohe, Turpan, Qinhuangdao and Arshan has also become more hot than in previous years.
Regarding popular international routes, it is expected that civil aviation will continue to usher in the peak season of international tourism and study abroad travel markets this summer. Xu Qing said that from the perspective of the flight arrangements of Chinese and foreign airlines, popular international passenger routes will continue to be concentrated in the surrounding traditional tourism markets such as Japan, Korea and Southeast Asian countries; Driven by major events such as the Olympic Games, overtime to France has increased significantly, and airlines have also increased overtime on routes to Denmark, Hungary, Greece and other countries.
The introduction of new aircraft provides a strong guarantee for passenger travel
On July 1, China Eastern Airlines announced that it would put six domestically produced C919 aircraft into preparation for the summer season. Nearly 800 passenger aircraft, including 6 C919s, carried out 1,002 passenger routes, covering 249 destinations.
On July 2, Sichuan Airlines' eighth A350 panda-themed livery aircraft (B-32G2/A350) successfully flew the inaugural flight 3U8885 Shuangliu-Beijing.
On July 5, Tibet Airlines' sixth Airbus A319neo was successfully introduced, providing strong support for further passenger travel.
On July 8, the Airbus A320 family aircraft in Tianjin delivered the 700th A320 family aircraft to the Asian final assembly line, which is an Airbus A320neo aircraft with a total of 180 economy class seats.
The supply and demand of summer transportation are booming, and the price of air tickets has fallen
This year's civil aviation summer transportation has shown a pattern of "supply and demand", and domestic and international air ticket prices have dropped to a certain extent.
However, not all flights are falling. Taking the Beijing-Seoul direct flight ticket as an example, the ticket for the outbound trip on June 28 is 636 yuan, while the lowest ticket price for the outbound journey on July 12 and 19, which are also Fridays, is 1109 yuan and 759 yuan respectively, with a slight increase.
Some people in the civil aviation industry believe that the fluctuation of air ticket prices is related to a variety of factors, and the increase in capacity will also affect air ticket prices to a certain extent.
(Source: Xinhua News Agency)