At noon on November 11, the Comprehensive Group of the State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism issued the “Notice on Further Optimizing the Prevention and Control Measures for the New Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic and Scientific and Accurate Prevention and Control

Source of this article: Times Finance Author: Lin Xinlin

No air tickets to return to China at a sky-high price?

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At noon on November 11, the Comprehensive Group of the State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism issued the "Notice on Further Optimizing the Prevention and Control Measures for the New Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic and Scientific and Accurate Prevention and Control Work", and announced twenty measures to further optimize prevention and control work.

clearly put forward a number of favorable measures, including adjusting the risk zone from "high, medium and low" to "high and low" to minimize the number of control personnel; for incoming personnel, the "7-day centralized quarantine + 3-day home health monitoring" will be adjusted to "5-day centralized quarantine + 3-day home quarantine", etc.

also mentioned that the inbound flight circuit breaker mechanism of was cancelled, and the nucleic acid test negative certificate was adjusted within 48 hours before boarding to the nucleic acid test negative certificate was once within 48 hours before boarding.

Since the beginning of this year, the domestic civil aviation industry has been under pressure and the long-term tourism market has continued to be sluggish. In the view of many industry insiders, the optimization of prevention and control measures for this epidemic will benefit the recovery of domestic aviation and tourism industries to a certain extent.

In the afternoon, multiple related sectors rose.

Among them, the tourism and hotel stocks rebounded rapidly, and Western Regions Tourism, Guilin Tourism, Emeishan A, Yunnan Tourism , Zhangjiajie, Huatian Hotel , Junting Hotel , Huazhu Group , Ctrip Tourism, Tongcheng Travel all rose, and Xi'an Tourism once hit the daily limit .

At the same time, companies with inbound and outbound tourism as the main business, such as ST Caesar, turned to the previous decline in the afternoon, and the share price of rushed to 5.11 yuan per share.

However, a sales manager of a chain travel agency said that the company still chose to "hold on the move" for the current epidemic prevention and control policies. It said that since last year, the company has dismissed or transferred employees of the inbound and exit business department. "At present, it is clear that the inbound and exit tourism business is far from restarting, and only Hong Kong and Macao are gradually recovering."

Expert from the China Civil Aviation High-Quality Development Research Center Qi Qi also believes that the epidemic optimization prevention and control measures are a greater fine adjustment, but it is too early to fully relax the full liberalization, and the entry and exit policies need to be continuously relaxed at the implementation level.

Compared with the tourism industry, this move still plays a positive role in the aviation industry's first recovery.

Times Finance learned that since mid-to-late October, civil aviation has ushered in adjustments in the winter and spring season flight plans, and many domestic airlines have also announced the resumption of international passenger routes. The total number of international routes has increased by about 1 times compared with before the season, involving some popular waypoints such as Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and Singapore. Data provided by Ctrip also shows that as of now, China's planned round-trip capacity for inbound and outbound routes is nearly 1,300 flights per week, an increase of about 30% compared with before October 31.

After the epidemic optimization measures were released on November 11, the aviation sector also rose sharply in the afternoon. China Eastern Airlines and Air China once rose by more than 7%, and China Southern Airlines , Spring Airlines , and Juneyao Airlines also followed suit.

Data from Ctrip shows that one hour after the news was released, the number of inbound ticket orders for China on the platform doubled compared with yesterday (November 10), and the search volume of international flights increased by 2 times; Qunar platform also shows that the instantaneous search volume of international air tickets reached its peak in the past year. As of 14:00 on November 11, the real-time search volume of Qunar platform increased by 3 times month-on-month compared with in the same period yesterday, and is still growing.

"New measures will make the overall supply of air tickets back to China relatively large and stable." Qi Qi said that at the same time, the airlines' international flight plans for the new flight season continued to increase, and with the abolition of the circuit breaker mechanism, the international air ticket prices will return rationally when the demand for entry and exit is relatively stable.

On major social platforms, discussions on the cancellation of flight circuit breaker mechanism continue to rise, and netizens said, "Is the return ticket finally going down?" "The spring for international students is coming!"

Within an hour after learning the news, Japanese student Liu Ying (pseudonym) repurchased the round-trip tickets from Japan-Dalian early next year. "I originally booked the ticket in September, and the round-trip air ticket was nearly 250,000 yen (about 12,000 yuan). Today, the round-trip air ticket was only 164,000 yen (about 8,200 yuan)."

Although the refund of tickets was also deducted a handling fee of several hundred yuan, Liu Ying lamented, "at least we saved both nucleic acid and hotel expenses. "According to Liu Ying's understanding, some international students even spent one or two thousand yuan to repurchase tickets.

Liu Xin (pseudonym), who works in Russia, found that the current price of air tickets from Russia-Shenzhen on December 1 is 12,783 yuan, and when I rebooked the ticket software a few days ago, the price of the same flight was 22,000 yuan, and the ticket price was almost halved. "I bought the tickets in advance in October, and it still cost 19,000 yuan. "

However, a travel agency told Times Finance that, except for the loosening of prices on November 11, the air ticket prices of most routes are relatively stable. An international ticket agent also revealed that with the recent increase in international flights, the prices of air tickets back to China in the UK, South Korea, Japan and other countries have indeed fallen slightly, but the implementation of the latest policies and flight implementation is expected to take some time.

"Even some European and American air tickets back to China in the past two days, such as the Netherlands to China, have also warmed up because Christmas and the Lunar New Year are approaching. "The agent told Times Finance.

According to data provided by Ctrip, from the end of August to the present, the average price of outbound flights has dropped by nearly 40%, and the price of inbound flights has dropped more significantly. As of November 6, the average price was only about half of the average price at the end of August. The data from the aviation and travel industry shows that from November 1 to 10, the average payment fare (excluding tax) of inbound and outbound flights was about 8,783 yuan, a decrease of about 18% from the same period last month.