China domestic travel may be recovering; international travel slow
Analysis from China’s top airports is showing a possible domestic recovery but also clear signs that an international recovery is not yet underway.
Data from Guangzhou and Haikou airports show an improvement in domestic travel from February to March of this year, reaching monthly travel levels of 30% of 2019’s levels for the same month. However, the latest weekly numbers to Hainan Island’s Haikou airport for the first week of April show this trend did not continue, and Beijing passenger numbers from February to March of 2020 showed very little improvement.
If the figures from Guangzhou and Haikou airports from the month of March are representative of the country as a whole, this may be a sign of burgeoning improvement for Chinese domestic travel.
International travel to China, meanwhile, showed a continued decline in March. Three important international airports, Beijing, Guangzhou and Hong Kong, all showed a substantial decline in international traffic from February to March 2020, all approximately 90% lower than the same period in 2019. Air4casts suggests that this likely represents a catastrophic low point.
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