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Chinese air travel climbs +7.3% in first five months – 04/07/08

Source: ©The Moodie Report

By Dermot Davitt

CHINA. Mainland China-based airlines carried 77.61 million passengers in the first five months of the year, climbing +7.3% over the same period last year, according to the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC).

Domestic passenger numbers hit 71.69 million, up +7.6% year-on-year, while international passengers increased by +4.8% to 6.6 million.

In May, passenger traffic dipped -1.1% year-on-year to 15.36 million. The average passenger load factor in May was 70.9%, down by 2.8 percentage points from a year earlier, while the five-month load factor was up 0.7 percentage points at 65.2%, the CAAC said.