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China’s Domestic Travel Takes Off

by Sarah Robinson|18 January 202318 January 2023| key airports, PVG, ICN, Phuket, Malaga,

What a difference a week makes. While international air travel out of China has remained quiet since the 8th January Covid rules relaxation, dom.....

Changes in China Policy; Watch Out for Five Indicators

by Ian Robinson|22 November 202222 November 2022| key airports, PVG, ICN, Phuket, Malaga,

For the next four days Air4casts will be exploring five important traffic indicators which, taken together and separately, may be interpreted as indic.....

Hainan and Its Best Seven Days

by Ian Robinson|29 September 202029 September 2020| key airports, PVG, ICN, Phuket, Malaga,

Hainan Island’s largest airport, Haikou Meilan, last week had its best 7 days since the start of the pandemic. These latest weekly passenger num.....

Hainan Island Breaks Post Pandemic Records

by Sarah Robinson|21 July 202021 July 2020| key airports, PVG, ICN, Phuket, Malaga,

On Thursday last we reported the good news that Hainan’s travel numbers were progressing steadily week on week. Today's bulletin goes fur.....

China Retail Sales; The Phenomenon of Revenge Shopping

by Ian Robinson|03 June 202003 June 2020| key airports, PVG, ICN, Phuket, Malaga,

April data for Retail Sales in China, not Travel Retail sales, shows that while a sort of recovery is continuing, expenditure levels are still down on.....

China Recovery Watch; May Day Holiday Air Travel Performance

by Emma Robinson|07 May 202007 May 2020| key airports, PVG, ICN, Phuket, Malaga,

Daily travel data just released from the Chinese government pinpoints what actually happened over the May Day holiday period. The focus is .....

China Recovery Watch; May Day Recovery Good News

by Emma Robinson|27 April 202027 April 2020| key airports, PVG, ICN, Phuket, Malaga,

Data just released by Ctrip confirms the expected/hoped for boost in travel demand. It goes without saying that the continuing limita.....

China Recovery Watching

by Sarah Robinson|19 April 202019 April 2020| key airports, PVG, ICN, Phuket, Malaga,

Today's Air4casts bulletin analyses the domestic and international March airport passenger counts from China's top airports. .....

China Domestic Recovery Watch; Hotel Occupancy

by Emma Robinson|17 April 202017 April 2020| key airports, PVG, ICN, Phuket, Malaga,

Hotel occupancy rates are one of the best available weekly indicators of any recovery in Chinese domestic travel and this summary provides an invaluab.....

China: Domestic Routes Will Lead the Recovery

by Ian Robinson|24 March 202024 March 2020| key airports, PVG, ICN, Phuket, Malaga,

For the past two months Air4casts has measured the effect of all the travel restrictions, flight cancellations and border closures on the internationa.....

COVID-19; Today’s Airport Passenger Updates

by Sarah Robinson|11 March 202011 March 2020| key airports, PVG, ICN, Phuket, Malaga,

Today’s Coronavirus briefing focuses on two crucial crisis data strands ✓ hard February airport passenger data and ✓ the Chine.....

Chinese New Year Travel - What a Difference a Year Makes

by Sarah Robinson|17 January 202017 January 2020| key airports, PVG, ICN, Phuket, Malaga,

Today’s Air4casts analysis covers the fastest growing foreign terminals for Chinese air travellers over the peak 15 day New Year holiday per.....

Mixed Chinese Travel Messages in the Final Quarter of 2019

by Jane Robinson|13 January 202013 January 2020| key airports, PVG, ICN, Phuket, Malaga,

Today's client exclusive analysis focuses on the striking Chinese destination performance extremes now in evidence for the final.....