A new batch of newly opened, resumed and encrypted international routes and flights are coming.
From October 30, 2022 to March 25, 2023, China Civil Aviation will implement the 2022/23 winter and spring flight season flight plan. According to the Civil Aviation Administration on October 26, this winter and spring flight season, a total of 127 domestic and foreign airlines plan to arrange 104,573 passenger and cargo flights per week (one take-off and landing meter is 1 flight).
html Since October, many airlines have successively announced plans for new flights. Many airlines including Air China , China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines and other airlines have successively announced international resumption of flights, encrypted flights and new domestic and international routes planned in the new flight season, mainly involving Asia, Europe, and the Americas.As the concentration of international flights increases, fares are also moving, and the overall trend has been on the decline since October.
According to the data of the online travel platform " Ctrip ", as of October 27, the average domestic one-way tax-inclusive air ticket price in October was 744 yuan, an increase of 13% year-on-year. The average price of international air tickets including tax is 6,265 yuan, an increase of nearly 40% year-on-year and a decrease of 23% from September. According to the data from Qunar, the "online travel platform" shows that in late October (October 15 to 27), the average payment price of domestic flight tickets was 480 yuan, a decrease of 14% from the same period in September; in late October, the average payment price of international flight tickets fell by 13% from the same period in September.
The three major airlines have a total of 136 international routes for the new flight season
According to the current winter and spring flight season flight plans announced by the three major airlines, Air China, China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines respectively plan to implement 52, 42 and 42 international routes, a total of 136 international routes.
Take Air China and China Southern Airlines as examples, and the number of international routes increased significantly compared with the previous summer and autumn season (March 27-October 29) this new flight season. Air China and China Southern Airlines announced that they would implement 17 and 25 international routes in the summer and autumn flights respectively, a month-on-month increase of 68%.
htmlIn October, many airlines have announced new routes and encrypted flights before the start of the new flight season. htmlOn October 28, according to Air China, Air China's new flight season plans to implement 52 international and regional passenger routes, 132 flights per week, and newly resume international routes such as Beijing-Singapore, Hangzhou- Rome , Hangzhou- Osaka , Chongqing- Dubai , Chongqing-Seoul, Tianjin-Tokyo, Tianjin-Osaka, etc., and plans to open new international routes such as Beijing-Johannesburg-Chengdu, Chongqing- Budapest , Chongqing-Ho Chi Minh City, etc.In addition, the investment in domestic flight capacity continues to increase. In terms of domestic flight operations, Air China plans to implement 343 domestic routes, 1,450 flights per day, an increase of 3.3% year-on-year compared with the same period in 2021.
Winter and Spring Flight Season, China Eastern Airlines plans to implement 42 international routes including Shanghai Pudong to Toronto , New York, Paris, Frankfurt , Auckland , Sydney , etc. According to the international flight plan for the new flight season in November, China Eastern Airlines adds Wenzhou -Rome-Wenzhou route; Shanghai (Pudong)-Budapest-Shanghai (Pudong), Qingdao -Dubai-Qingdao, Kunming-Tokyo ( Narita )-Kunming, Nanjing-Tokyo (Narina)-Nanjing, Hangzhou-Tokyo (Narina)-Hangzhou, Nanjing-Seoul ( Incheon )-Nanjing, Kunming- Bangkok -Kunming, Kunming-Singapore-Kunming, Kunming-Ho Chi Minh-Kunming and other routes.
In terms of domestic passenger transport, according to changes in seasons and market demand, China Eastern Airlines will open 22 routes including Beijing Daxing-Sanya, Hangzhou-Shenzhen, Beijing Daxing-Dalian in the 2022 winter flight season compared with the summer flight season. Wide-body machines will be launched in key domestic markets such as Shanghai, Chengdu, Hangzhou, and Guangzhou, and will be dynamically adjusted in the later stage in light of changes in passenger and freight market demand.
China Southern Airlines plans to open 40 new routes in China. In the new flight season, China Southern Airlines plans to implement 42 international routes in 32 countries, with a total of 112 flights per week. Among them, in October, the international routes including Guangzhou-Phnom Penh, Guangzhou-Dubai, Guangzhou-, Manila , Wuhan-Manila, Wuhan-Bangkok, Guangzhou-Bangkok, Shenzhen-Singapore were added.
In addition, according to China Southern Airlines Weibo, it officially resumed its Dalian-Seoul route on October 24. Starting from October 26, China Southern Airlines will resume flights for the first time since February 2020. Starting from October 29, China Southern Airlines will launch its new growth sand- Kuala Lumpur route. On October 28, the Shenzhen-Singapore route will be resumed.Starting from November 17, the Shenyang-Tokyo route will be resumed. The Guangzhou-New York passenger route will be resumed from December 1.
Juneyao Airlines announced on October 28 that it would add a new Nanjing-Tokyo route plan, which is the second Japanese route from Juneyao Airlines to Nanjing after the Nanjing-Osaka route. The route will be carried out once a week from November 10, 2022. With the existing Pudong -Osaka route, the Juneyao Airlines routes in Japan will be restored to 3.
Sichuan Airlines , on October 24, the Chengdu-Roman route will resume flights; from November 25, the Chengdu-Singapore route will resume flights, one flight every Friday.
Shandong Airlines Starting from November 10, the Qingdao-Osaka route will be launched and will be executed every Thursday. Xiamen -Jakarta route is under intense preparations and is expected to start next month. Shanhang will also carry out a set of round-trip flights from Qingdao to Seoul on November 14, December 12, January 9, February 6 and March 6, 2023 respectively.
International passenger capacity in the new flight season doubled year-on-year, and air ticket prices will gradually stabilize in a relatively reasonable range
htmlOn October 26, the Civil Aviation Administration held a monthly regular press conference. For the flight schedule for the new flight season. According to the Civil Aviation Administration, in terms of international routes, domestic and foreign airlines currently arrange 840 passenger flights per week, which is 420 round-trip flights, an increase of 105.9% year-on-year compared with the 2021/22 winter and spring flight season; 6,148 cargo flights (including passenger and cargo conversion) are arranged every week, an increase of 6.7% year-on-year compared with the 2021/22 winter and spring flight season.Previously, there have been positive signals from multiple policy ends, encouraging the orderly increase of domestic and international passenger flights.
At the end of May this year, after the State Council mentioned that "the orderly increase domestic and international passenger flights and formulate measures to facilitate personnel exchanges between foreign companies", many domestic airlines announced the resumption of flights to multiple international passenger routes from June.
At the Civil Aviation Administration’s press conference in July this year, Xu Qing, deputy director of the Transportation Department of the Civil Aviation Administration, said that considering the needs of international personnel exchanges such as overseas students returning to China, the Civil Aviation Administration is in the coordination of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council, and in accordance with the development of the epidemic situation, the optimization of recent prevention and control measures, and the improvement of local international flight guarantee capabilities, the work of safe and orderly restoring international regular passenger flights, and accelerating the recovery of the international aviation market. The Civil Aviation Administration will continue to strengthen consultations with relevant countries and gradually increase the number of international flights.
htmlOn October 25, National Development and Reform Commission and other departments issued the "Notice on Several Policy Measures to Promote the Expansion of Foreign Investment with the Focus of Manufacturing to Stabilize Stocks and Improve Quality." It proposes that on the premise of doing a good job in the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, it is convenient for the entry and exit of multinational companies, foreign-invested enterprises, technicians and their families to enter and exit the country. All localities should make good use of the "fast channels" for personnel exchanges between Chinese and foreign countries, and combine local actual conditions to further clarify standards and procedures to provide convenience for foreign personnel to come to China.According to a research report on China Post Securities on October 23, with the adjustment of international flight circuit breaker policy and the continuous optimization of epidemic prevention and control policies, the trend of accelerated recovery of airlines' international flights has become increasingly obvious, and the trend of continuous recovery of the industry has not changed.
In addition, several airline insiders recently told Pengpai News reporters that the overall international route prices have dropped recently, and flight encryption is indeed the main reason.
Some industry insiders also said that as the supply of international routes increases, international fares will gradually stabilize in a relatively reasonable range, and prices may fluctuate again during the New Year's Day and Spring Festival travel rush. Since October, with the recovery of international routes, the ticket prices of some international routes have fallen back to the normal price range.
According to Tongcheng Travel on October 25, at present, the air ticket prices from major European cities to China have basically returned to between 10,000 and 20,000 yuan, and some routes have dropped to less than 10,000 yuan. Among the major cities in East Asia and Southeast Asia to China, there are many air tickets below 10,000 yuan for users to choose from. After Japan announced the lifting of entry restrictions on October 11, the price of economy class air tickets from Tokyo to Shanghai fell to the price range of 5,000 to 8,000 yuan.
