As China’s domestic travel and tourism industry shows signs of recovery, inflight connectivity service providers are looking to the world’s most populous country as a growth market. After all, the lion’s share of China’s domestic airline fleet is still not fitted with IFC systems that support broadband Internet for passengers.
By the end of 2020, China’s three largest carriers Air China, China Eastern and China Southern “had reported demand returning to 90 percent of 2019 levels, but that changed quickly. Fresh COVID outbreaks early this year prompted the Chinese government to impose new travel restrictions during the Lunar New Year holiday. Those have since eased,” noted Airline Weekly