Hello friends, I am your old friend Xiao Baijiang. How much does it cost to fly when you study in Japan? I believe that in recent years, friends who have traveled to Japan have spent a lot of money to buy air tickets, and it is hard to get a ticket. Recently, Japanese news reported that it is a great news for us international students - the price of air tickets for Japanese international students returning to China has dropped by more than 50%. After hearing this good news, Xiao Baijiang felt very happy. The international students no longer had to study in Japan alone in order to save air tickets. On New Year's Eve, they could only call their family members. What is the reason why the price of air tickets for Japanese students returning to China has dropped by more than 50%? So what is the policy of reducing the price of air tickets for overseas students returning to China by more than 50%? Let’s take a look with Xiao Baijiang.
Since Japan lifted entry restrictions, the international routes of China and Japan have gradually begun to increase. The previous dilemma of international students who could not buy air tickets without grabbing tickets a month in advance has become a thing of the past. What is even more gratifying is that air ticket prices have gradually returned to an acceptable range. For example, the price of economy class air tickets from Tokyo to Shanghai has fallen to the price range of 5,000-8,000 yuan. Compared to the time when the direct flight ticket to Japan was at least 10,000 yuan, this price range is now completely acceptable. And there is no need to grab tickets, there are still more extra tickets at present. It is not just this route from Tokyo to Shanghai, but the air ticket prices have dropped by more than 50% on multiple routes. It can be said that it greatly facilitates our overseas students who want to return to China.
According to Japan Economic News, Japan Airlines (JAL) announced on November 7 that it will resume flights from Narita Airport to Shanghai (Pudong) on November 10. Previously, there were only one flight every Thursday. According to Chinese authorities, passenger flights can only return (from Shanghai to Narita Airport). JAL applied to Chinese authorities for an additional round-trip flight weekly. It is said that the voyage of the whole Japanese air freight (ANA) on November 9, Narita -Shanghai Line increased from 1 round trip per week to 2 round trips.
In addition, the number of inbound tickets in China and Japan increased by 63% compared with last month, and the number of bookings increased by 28% compared with last month. These recovery phenomena are closely related to the significant resumption of flights such as Japan Airlines and ANA.
Not only the increase in flights in China, but recently, due to the sharp ease of the new crown epidemic policy, the demand for international routes has increased sharply. ANA Airport's takeoff and landing flights increased by 40% from the 30th. ANA will change its schedule from the 30th, and international routes such as North America and Hawaii departures from Haneda Airport have increased by 40%. Business flight utilization from Haneda Airport has increased, returning to about 50% of the 2019 period before the expansion of the novel coronavirus infection.
However, due to China's epidemic control policy, flights to China are still recovering slowly, but they are gradually showing a good trend of improvement. In addition, there is also national travel support, and the demand for Tokaido Shinkansen has also recovered to 94% in 2018 before the infection expanded.
Japan Airlines issued the final accounts of the entire group from April to September, and the final profit and loss was a deficit of 2.1 billion yen. This is a significant improvement from the deficit of 104.9 billion yen in the same period last year. From the July to September quarter alone, the final profit was 17.4 billion yen, which was a surplus conversion after 2 years and 9 months. ANA Holdings and JR East Japan also made profits after three years, and the performance of the railway and aviation industries has returned to the tone.
The main reason is that due to the significant ease of countermeasures against the new crown epidemic, the demand for overseas business trips and tourism from Japan is recovering. However, the depreciation of the yen and the continued rise in prices of raw materials such as fuels, we still cannot have a very good attitude towards this situation.
