CCTV News: National Civil Aviation officially implements the summer and autumn flight schedule starting from March 30, and the new flight season will last until October 25, 2025, totaling 210 days. In the new flight season, 209 domestic and foreign airlines plan to arrange 123,000 regular passenger and cargo flights per week, mainly changing the flight optimization and adjustment based on the actual needs of passengers. In terms of international flights, the Civil Aviation Administration has approved the plan for 22,946 regular passenger and cargo flights per week by 193 domestic and foreign airlines, an increase of 33% over the summer and autumn season of 2024.
Encrypt the "small city" branch routes to meet domestic travel needs
Overall, the total number of flights in this flight season has not increased significantly. The main changes in the seasons are reflected in the optimization and adjustment of flights to the actual needs of passengers. With the popularity of "small town" tourism in the past two years, more capacity will be invested on regional routes this year's new flight season.
In the new flight season, a total of 38 airlines plan to arrange a total of 6,454 regular flights per week on the newly opened 640 domestic solo passenger routes. The newly opened solo flight routes are mainly concentrated in the main and branch routes and branch routes between the branch routes and hub airports such as Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou and other provinces and regions, and the main routes of the main routes and branch routes between the branch routes and hub airports such as Chongqing, Guiyang, and Changsha.
The reporter checked the flight plans of several airlines in the new flight season and found that many airlines have invested more capacity on regional routes this summer and autumn flights. Air China has newly opened Beijing-Altay, Chongqing-Kashgar, Wuhan-Lanzhou-Dunhuang, and has expanded Beijing-Urumqi, Dunhuang, Lhasa and other routes in total; China Southern Airlines will increase flights to Guangzhou to Kashgar, Yiwu and Xuzhou; Beijing Daxing to Dalian, Yiwu, Altay and other routes.
Zhong Shan, chief economist at the Institute of Air Transportation, Academy of Aeronautics, said: "For example, airports with special tourism such as Tianshui Airport and Altay have actually grown very well last year. So in this summer and autumn flight season, the convenience of branch airports will be increased around the changes in passenger travel needs."
