China's Passenger Flight Traffic Recovered to 88.3% of Earlier in October (Yicai Global) Nov. 13 -- China's aviation industry was recovering from the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in October.
At 50.3 million trips, passenger traffic reached 88.3 percent of that of October 2019, the Civil Aviation Administration of China announced today at a press conference. Freight transportation reached 8.7 billion ton-kilometers, or 77.5 percent of that of a year ago.
In October, some 621,000 tons of cargo and mail transportation was carried out, falling 6.8 percent. All flights totaled 939,000 hours, 9.9 percent less than a year ago.
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