CHINA AVIATION MARKET

Flight data and analysis focused on China's aviation market recovery, with data powered by OAG's Schedules Analyser. The data is updated monthly. Seats are calculated as departing seats (one-way). The data displayed in the charts below is available to download here.

China's Top 10 Airlines by departing seats (one way)

KEY POINTS

• China Southern remains China's largest carrier, with 16% of seats this month. Daily capacity reduced by 5% compared with August 2024 and was down 3% vs last year.
• China Eastern is the second largest carrier, with 9.8m seats and 14% share of domestic capacity.
• The Top 10 airlines represent 70% of domestic capacity.
• Whilst Spring Airlines' capacity is significantly higher than last year, it reduced capacity most amongst the Top 10, declining by 15% daily.
• Similarly, Sichuan Airlines reduced daily capacity by 14% vs last month.
  

KEY POINTS

• Beijing Capital Airport to Shanghai Hongqiao (PEK-SHA) remains China's busiest route with 668,100 seats, with a daily increase of 6% vs last month whilst capacity has reduced on most other routes.
• Capacity also grew on the Beijing - Shenzhen route this month by 7%, whilst reducing on most routes.
• Daily capacity reduced by 12% on the Guangdong to Shanghai route, also declining by 13% vs last year.
  

KEY POINTS

• Beijing remains the busiest city this month with 5.3m seats through the 2 main airports. Shanghai is second biggest with 4.6m seats, and Chengdu is the third busiest, with only 398,000 fewer seats than Shanghai.
• The Top 5 cities account for 28.2% of domestic capacity this month.
• Capacity reduced in all 5 cities, reducing most in Guangzhou by 14.9% vs last month.
  
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The table shows domestic capacity by Chinese Province for this month (July 2024) as well as last month (June 2024) and the same month last year (July 2023).