China Domestic Air Travel

China domestic air travel

The Hainan Liquor Forecast

by Emma Robinson|04 April 202404 April 2024| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

Tracking the resort’s liquor sales pre and post Covid raises the question which way for the 2024/2025 time span? The history sh.....

Hainan Island Breaks all Records in February

by Sarah Robinson|27 March 202427 March 2024| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

Just released, the official February visitor and retail sales data for Hainan Island will hearten everyone that has invested in the island’s phe.....

Chinese Travel Surges to Hainan and Macau

by Sarah Robinson|27 April 202327 April 2023| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

The Air4casts’ ChinaDomestic module is today reporting a major Chinese traveller increase to both key tourist destinations. Inbound.....

Hainan Year of the Rabbit Travel Just 13% Below 2019…and Catching up Fast

by Jane Robinson|20 January 202320 January 2023| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

Last week’s data from Hainan’s biggest airport show passenger numbers soaring past half a million in the crucial run-up to Chinese New Yea.....

2023 China Passenger Forecast

by Ian Robinson|16 January 202316 January 2023| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

The first of the monthly updated 2023 forecast sets has today been uploaded to client sites. CHINA FOCUS Necessarily a focus of interest.....

Hainan Now in Real Recovery Mode

by Emma Robinson|16 December 202216 December 2022| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

Subscribers to the Air4casts ChinaDomestic module are avid watchers of our weekly air passenger numbers from the island’s biggest airport, Haiko.....

Changes in China Policy: Daily International Flights

by Jane Robinson|24 November 202224 November 2022| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

Continuing this week’s Air4casts is reporting on five important traffic indicators with the third in the series: Daily Domestic Travel - Read.....

Changes in China Policy: Hong Kong Flight Schedules

by Ian Robinson|23 November 202223 November 2022| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

This week Air4casts is reporting on five important traffic indicators: #1 to Watch; Daily Domestic Travel - Yesterday #2 to Watch; Hong Kong Flight .....

Changes in China Policy; Watch Out for Five Indicators

by Ian Robinson|22 November 202222 November 2022| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

For the next four days Air4casts will be exploring five important traffic indicators which, taken together and separately, may be interpreted as indic.....

Two October Setbacks for Travel Retail

by Ian Robinson|07 November 202207 November 2022| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

The last lingering hope that the Communist Party of China might, in the foreseeable future, move towards a more liberal travel policy for its citizens.....

Hainan and Macau Beat the Golden Week Trend

by Jane Robinson|13 October 202213 October 2022| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

While many regions in China experienced muted domestic air travel levels last week there is better news from both Hainan and Macau. Overa.....

Is China on the Rebound?

by Ian Robinson|03 October 202203 October 2022| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

Data, published Friday last, produces some very welcome positives. Daily Flights - end September numbers show flight departure.....

China’s Domestic Air Traffic Down 40%

by Sarah Robinson|02 September 202202 September 2022| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

After an encouraging July upswing in domestic air travel on mainland China, August proved problematical. Once again the Chinese governmen.....

China Domestics: Good Weekend News

by Ian Robinson|04 July 202204 July 2022| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

Domestic flight departures this weekend brought more welcome news for China watchers: ✓ Sunday departures jumped by a thousand day to.....

Hainan’s Retail Sales Back on Track

by Sarah Robinson|30 June 202230 June 2022| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

Whilst Hainan Island’s tourism business was deeply affected by the recent Covid lockdowns, retail sales just published for May show real signs o.....

China’s June Revival

by Sarah Robinson|15 June 202215 June 2022| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

After 3 months of rapid decline China’s domestic air travel market is beginning to emerge from its lockdown induced torpor. Daily d.....

China Traffic Woes Accumulate

by Sarah Robinson|06 April 202206 April 2022| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

Yesterday saw commercial flight departures in China reach a new low. At 1758 the comparison with levels achieved just two months ago is stark.&n.....

Top 2021 China Domestic Airport Rankings

by Jane Robinson|31 March 202231 March 2022| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

With so much focus in Travel Retail on the domestic airports in China, Air4casts’ Chart of the Day lists the top 20 airports in mainland China r.....

Chinese Domestics in Freefall

by Emma Robinson|16 March 202216 March 2022| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

No China watcher can have missed the recent and rapid rise in Covid cases: 5280 at the March 15 count. &.....

Hainan Tourists Improve in January

by Jane Robinson|10 January 202210 January 2022| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

Data received today from Haikou Meilan airport shows a distinct improvement in domestic air travel to the island this week. The airport h.....

Omicron Flight Cancellations: Apparent or Real?

by Ian Robinson|05 January 202205 January 2022| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

Over the holiday period there was a surge in breathless press reports, many of them beginning in the USA, pointing to a an unprecedented level of flig.....

China Snapshot: November Domestic Plummets

by Ian Robinson|16 December 202116 December 2021| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

Although the sample of declaring domestic airports is presently and necessarily small, 25% of the expected traffic for the month, the numbers ar.....

Air4casts ChinaDomestic Webinar Is Online

by Sarah Robinson|05 December 202105 December 2021| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

Air4casts' China Domestic data webinar is now available for view in the link below. Click Here. Happy watching!

Hainan Island This Week PLUS

by Jane Robinson|11 November 202111 November 2021| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

This week’s Hainan PAX numbers have today been uploaded to client websites. Subscribers will see that passengers are down, both on the same week.....

Chinese Domestic Travellers: The September Data

by Ian Robinson|28 October 202128 October 2021| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

It is welcome news that the sector has recovered strongly in September after a disastrous August. Sign up here for one of Air4casts’ pe.....

China Domestics; Reporting the last 7 days

by Sarah Robinson|15 October 202115 October 2021| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

The number of passengers departing Chinese airports on domestic flights in the last seven days was down on the week before. As importan.....

Air4casts Launches the China Domestic Module

by Emma Robinson|03 October 202103 October 2021| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

Have you tried our new ChinaDomestic module? The new ChinaDomestic module has been developed by Air4casts in response to the need for fast and accu.....

Hainan Arrivals Down for 8 Weeks in a Row

by Susan Kennedy|24 September 202124 September 2021| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

The latest Hainan weekly report is available to clients to download today with data up to this Wednesday 22 September. Last week Haikou M.....

Latest September Forecast Update

by Ian Robinson|03 September 202103 September 2021| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

The latest September forecasts have today been uploaded to client sites. Ryanair, for the month of October, is forecasting to sel.....

China Domestic Travel in April

by Ian Robinson|20 May 202120 May 2021| GoogleTrends, Toutiao, Baidu, Weibo, WeChat,

The latest domestic passenger data for Chinese airports in April provides an excellent indicator of market developments and trends with one import.....