Summer season drives rise in domestic air biz By ZHU WENQIAN | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-07-30 09:03 Share CLOSE Passengers step out of a China Southern Airlines aircraft at Dalian International Airport, Liaoning province, on July 15. [Photo by Liu Debin/For China Daily]
Domestic carriers are seeing booming business this summer, with airlines using more wide-body aircraft to operate some routes in a small peak of the domestic air travel market.
The period between July 1 and Aug 31 is the summer flying season in China. This summer, Haikou-based Hainan Airlines said it plans to operate about 140,000 flights for more than 18 million passenger trips in total. Both figures are expected to increase 40 percent year-on-year and exceed the level seen in summer 2019, it said.