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By Alfred Chua2020-12-16T07:20:00+00:00
After consecutive months of steady recovery, China’s three largest carriers reported their first domestic traffic slump in November the first in more than half a year, with at least one carrier blaming a resurgence in domestic coronavirus cases for the decline.
The ‘Big Three’ comprising Air China, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines all saw domestic passenger numbers and capacity shrink month on month, with some falling below pre-pandemic numbers.
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China’s three largest airlines saw declines in November domestic passenger traffic.
Though it claims to have kept the pandemic under control, China has in recent weeks seen a slight uptick in cases, the bulk of them imported cases, though there have been instances of locally-transmitted cases in a number of provinces.