Poll: Which Region’s Air Travel Market Will Most Quickly Recover To 2019 Passenger Traffic Levels?

China’s airlines posted passenger carriage improvements in May of more than 50% compared to April, thanks to strong domestic travel.

Spurred by the weeklong Labor Day holiday, the country’s three state carriers—Air China, China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines—collectively carried 14.1 million passengers, an average growth of 53.6% month-on-month (MOM).

Load factors also passed 60% for all three airlines. It was also in early May that China Southern and China Eastern became the world’s largest airlines in ASKs.

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