Chinese Airline Recovery Resumes After March-April Stall

Chinese airline activity
Commercial airline activity was mainly flat in April at Chinese airports such as Beijing Capital International Airport (pictured).
Credit: Kevin Jia
Three months after China began easing anti-pandemic measures, the airline industry’s domestic capacity is approaching 80% of the level of a year ago. Superficially, that does not look at all bad. But loads and yields are weak. And international business is almost negligible. Air China and Hainan...
Bradley Perrett

Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.

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