With the arrival of the summer vacation, the airline companies are also active. As of July 3, the state, east, south of the three major airlines have resumed a number of domestic routes, and increase the capacity of summer transportation to cope with the arrival of the summer tourism season. In addition to domestic routes, the momentum of the recent recovery of international routes also gradually appeared. At the time of market recovery, the three major airlines also collectively announced the purchase of new aircraft, throwing nearly 300 aircraft orders, targeting the future market layout. Industry insiders said that with the recovery of the tourism market, the airline companies also want to take the opportunity to accelerate the "blood", but is still dominated by domestic routes, if you want a full recovery, you need to wait until the full liberalization of the outbound travel.
Multiple routes restored
The summer season, the company also increased the summer capacity. July 2, Air China announced that it will gradually restore the Beijing round-trip Shanghai routes, and then will continue to restore the Beijing capital, Daxing Airport round-trip flights to Shanghai Hongqiao, Pudong Airport. Previously, China Eastern Airlines also released a news release, saying that a number of new flights will be added to the Shanghai and Beijing routes. The company's newest product is a new product that will be available on the market in the next few months," he said.
In addition to the Beijing-Shanghai route, for the popular summer destinations such as Xinjiang and Hainan, many carriers have increased their capacity by encrypting flights and opening new routes. In the Xinjiang market, China Southern Airlines plans to add more than 1,000 flights, mainly including the encryption of Shenzhen to Urumqi and other routes, the new Tianjin to Urumqi, Kashgar to Hetian to Altay routes, etc. The company also plans to increase the number of flights for the first time in a year.
Not only domestic routes, but also international routes, which have been quiet for a long time, have become more frequent recently. According to the three major airlines successively released the international route plan in July, a number of international routes to restore the route. Among them, Air China has resumed a number of international routes involving Europe, Asia and other cities; China Eastern Airlines, on the airline weekly implementation of international routes 22, involving Canada, the Netherlands, France and other countries; China Southern Airlines in July can be implemented in international and regional routes *** count 33. Overall, the three major airlines have announced more than 50 international and regional routes.
For the restoration plan of international routes, before the Civil Aviation Administration of the Secretary for Transportation Liang Nan also said at the conference, at present, the Civil Aviation Administration is in discussion with some of the countries, gradually and steadily increase the number of regular international passenger flights, in order to meet the needs of people to and from.
Lin Zhijie, a civil aviation industry insider, said that the current civil aviation market is in a solid recovery trend, in early April when the industry's lowest point, the flight volume is only less than 20% of the epidemic before the end of June, the flight volume returned to 60%, the momentum of the recovery is good.
Summer "blood" Summer travel season, the major airlines also take advantage of the situation to accelerate the "blood". In the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the abolition of the communication trip card "asterisk" mark, within a few hours a number of OTA air ticket search volume increased significantly. The big data of the same journey travel show that within half an hour of the news release, the platform air ticket search volume rose 180% compared to the same period of the previous day. Many tourists have even booked their flights in advance, aiming at the summer market earlier. Ctrip data shows that as of June 28, booking orders for cross-province tours from July 1 to August 31 increased by nearly 200% compared to the previous month. Data from Flying Pig also shows that summer air ticket bookings have increased by more than two times, and cities such as Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Xi'an are popular destinations for summer trips. In the summer tour recovery, a number of airline companies have also taken advantage of the "travel boom" to launch air ticket promotions. Spring Airlines launched a "summer travel tickets from 59 yuan" promotional activities, many routes airfare less than 300 yuan; HNA also launched a new phase of the "surprise flight" air ticket products, covering a number of popular destinations routes, the product has been shown to be sold out. In the first quarter of this year, a number of airline companies lost a lot of money, the country, the East, South three major airlines lost a total of 21.156 billion yuan. But by June, the civil aviation industry began to show a recovery. According to data from Frequent Flyer, from June 20-26, civil aviation transported 6.013 million passengers, up 14% year-on-year. Industry insiders said that the domestic demand for travel in the summer will usher in a concentrated release, the airline companies also hope to take advantage of the summer have to increase capacity, the launch of new promotional products, to accelerate the "blood". Expanding the fleet layout of the future While taking advantage of the "blood", the airline companies also look to the future. On July 1, the three major airlines announced one after another that the company signed an agreement with Airbus to purchase A320NEO series aircraft from Airbus. Among them, Air China and its subsidiary Shenzhen Airlines*** to buy 96, China Eastern Airlines to buy 100, China Southern Airlines to buy 96. It is understood that the three airline companies *** total purchase of 292 A320NEO series aircraft, the basic price of a total of about 249.5 billion yuan. For the reason of purchasing new aircraft, the three airline companies have put forward in the announcement, the aircraft transaction helps to enhance the company's market competitiveness. The announcement also shows that the introduction of the aircraft will be mainly put into the domestic trunk network market, used to encrypt high-yield routes, the development of potential markets, the follow-up part of the aircraft will also be used to fly around the international routes, help the company to optimize the route network, to enhance the overall route revenue level. There are also industry insiders who suggest that after more than two years of the epidemic, both the Chinese civil aviation market and the international civil aviation market are in a relatively rock-bottom position, and the renewal of the fleet also means that the various airline companies are planning for the future. China's civil aviation market has a lot of potential to tap, once the tourism market is fully recovered, the civil aviation market demand for capacity will also be significantly increased, the next five years China's civil aviation market potential is still very large. Lin Zhijie also said that the current central a number of policies are actively supporting the recovery of the industry, the civil aviation market steady recovery, but the summer transportation period may still face some twists and turns, if the epidemic spread, will still cause interference in the recovery of the industry. I believe that after the epidemic, the civil aviation industry will usher in a new round of golden development period. (Guan Zichen Zhang Yiran)