China air passenger traffic expected to fall 77% y/y over Labour Day holiday - regulator

BEIJING : China's aviation regulator said on Thursday it expects air passenger traffic to fall 77 per cent from a year earlier over the upcoming five-day Labour Day holiday, typically a high travel period for Chinese people, due to COVID-19 concerns.

Air passenger traffic in March already tumbled 67.9 per cent year-on-year, Wu Shijie, an official at the Civil Aviation Administration of China told an online briefing. That compared with a growth of 30.7 per cent in February.