On the first day of the new corona virus infection adjustment to “B and B class inspection”, the first batch of incoming passengers passed the customs smoothly, and the number of incoming and outgoing air ticket orders increased significantly from year to year.
From 0:00 on January 8, with the entry into force of China’s policy of canceling entrance nucleic acid testing and centralized isolation, and streamlining personnel exchanges between the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao, Guangzhou Airport ushered in the first batch of overseas flights after the adjustment of the epidemic prevention policy.
According to CCTV news reports, from 0:17 to 23 on January 8, flights CZ312 and ZH9024 from Toronto, Canada and Singapore successively stopped at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport and Shenzhen Baoan International Airport, carrying a board a total of 387 arriving passengers. the overall customs clearance situation is smooth and orderly. At 1:32 am, all 387 arriving passengers have successfully completed their customs clearance procedures.
On the day the policy went into effect, the number of inbound and outbound air ticket orders doubled year on year. According to online travel platform “Tongcheng Travel” big data, the number of incoming and outgoing air ticket orders for travel on the platform on January 8 increased by 628% year on year, reaching a peak since March 2020. Among them, inbound flight orders accounted for 48% and outbound flight orders 52%. On the same day, departing Chinese tourists who booked air tickets with the same trip flew to more than 100 cities in 53 countries and regions around the world.
From January 8 to the eve of the Spring Festival, the admission policy is favorable and the demand for going home during the Spring Festival is superimposed, which is conducive to a large increase in the number of incoming air ticket orders for the same travel. Big data from the same trip shows that the popular destinations for inbound flights on January 8 are Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Nanning. Among them, some popular non-stop inbound flights from Seoul to Nanjing, Phnom Penh to Nanning and Bangkok to Guiyang sold out a week before departure on January 8.
In addition, the number of airline ticket bookings to Hong Kong has gradually increased with the optimization of immigration policies. According to data from online travel platform “Qunar”, from December 27 to January 7, air ticket bookings from the mainland to Hong Kong increased by 3.8 times over the same period (November 26 to December 7), and other countries and regions Bookings for Hong Kong also increased by 3.2 times from the previous month.
On January 8, the first stage of customs clearance between Hong Kong, China and the mainland was accomplished, making Hong Kong, China the TOP1 departure location for inbound air tickets that day. The same travel data shows that the number of air ticket orders from Hong Kong, China to the mainland rose 62% MoM on the day, and the top inbound destinations include Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan and Nanjing. From 00:00 on January 8, the Civil Aviation Administration canceled the entry of international passenger flights bound for Beijing from the first designated entry point, Beijing will also become one of the important destinations for passenger entry in the future .
It is worth noting that many business travelers who went abroad in December last year delayed their return date after the policy was issued. According to data from Tongcheng Business Travel, 51% of users who booked inbound business travel tickets between December 27, 2022 and January 7, 2023 chose to postpone their return date to January 8 by exchanging or refunding the ticket the day after.
In terms of the price of international air tickets during the Spring Festival travel season, according to Qunar data, the average price paid for international air tickets departing from January 8 to February 15 during the Spring Festival travel season is 3,481 yuan, and popular destinations are Thailand, Macao, South Korea and the United States and Singapore; the average price paid for admission is 4446 yuan, and popular departure locations are South Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, Macao and Malaysia.
According to data from third-party travel data APP “Fei Changzhun”, as of December 31, 2022, the country will have implemented a total of 42,000 international passenger flights (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) in 2022, a year Decrease year-over-year of 37% and a decrease over the same period in 2019. 96%.
Zhao Nan, director of air travel industry development, said earlier that from the market point of view, with the gradual relaxation of entry-exit epidemic prevention and control measures, the demand for passenger travel has been gradually released. In the same period last year, from the supply side, it will take a process to restore the supply of flights and airline crews, so in 2023, driven by market demand, the number of bookings of international air tickets will grow steadily, and the speed of recovery of routes in Asia -Pacific region is expected to be obvious Above the intercontinental routes, the international civil aviation market will enter a new stage of recovery.
On Jan. 6, The Paper learned from the Civil Aviation Administration that this year, civil aviation will encourage large backbone airlines to set up express airlines between hubs, encourage small and medium-sized airlines to focus on regional markets, and it will restore the international aviation market in a safe and orderly manner. The 2023 National Civil Aviation Civil Aviation Work Conference was held on January 6. The meeting stressed that in 2023 it will strive to complete a total transport turnover of 97.6 billion ton-kilometers, a volume of passenger transport of 460 million people-time , and cargo and mail transport volume of 6.17 million tons, level of 75%, and strive to break even.
(Editor in charge: Wang Chenxi)
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