China's air travel continues recovery trend in July
Xinhua | Updated: 2022-08-18 17:55
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BEIJING -- China's air travel continued to recover in July, rising for three months in a row, the country's civil aviation authority said Thursday.
China's civil aviation industry handled approximately 34 million passenger trips last month, surging 54.5 percent month-on-month, Zhu Tao, an official with the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), told a press conference.
The total air transport turnover hit 6.8 billion tonne-km in July, growing 27.5 percent month on month, Zhu said.
The volume of cargo and mail transported by air came in at 539,000 tonnes, down 2.1 percent from a month earlier, CAAC data showed.
In July, the punctuality rate of Chinese airlines reached 89.1 percent.