Author: Chen Shanshan
[A number of industry insiders analyzed the reporter that Los Angeles is currently the most popular destination for airlines to fly routes between China and the United States, and the latest approved flights between China and the United States are concentrated in San Francisco, so the increase in transport capacity will bring about a greater decline in ticket prices. In addition, the traditional off-season of routes between China and the United States has entered, and the overall ticket prices also have room to decline.]
On October 27 local time, the U.S. Department of Transportation issued the latest notice, approving that Chinese airlines can further increase direct flights between China and the United States.
Just last month, China Airlines has just been approved to increase the number of direct flights between China and the United States to 24 pairs per week. This time, the United States allows further flights to 35 pairs per week from November 9, and ticket prices for China US routes are expected to further decline.
"Full blood recovery is expected in the summer of 2024"
According to the latest notice of the US Department of Transportation, the original directive in June 2020 was adjusted for the sixth time. According to the instruction, from November 9, China Airlines is allowed to increase the number of round-trip flights between China and the United States from 24 pairs per week to 35 pairs per week.
At present, the Chinese airline company implements 18 pairs of direct passenger flights to and from China and the United States every week, which can be increased to 24 pairs every week from October 29, including 8 pairs of Air China, 7 pairs of China Eastern Airlines, 6 pairs of China Southern Airlines and 3 pairs of Xiamen Airlines every week.
Before the epidemic, more Chinese airlines, such as Hainan Airlines, Sichuan Airlines and Capital Airlines, were flying the routes between China and the United States. After the Chinese airlines were approved to continue to increase the number of flights between China and the United States to 35 pairs, whether they could be approved to resume flights between China and the United States deserves attention.
Before November 9, the Chinese airline company needs to submit a specific flight application plan to the U.S. Department of Transportation, which can be implemented only after being approved by the regulatory authorities of China and the United States.
According to the reporter, even if it increased to 24 pairs of round-trip flights every week, the number of flights between China and the United States is still far from that before the epidemic. Before the epidemic, there were more than 300 direct flights between China and the United States every week. At present, the number of flights is only one tenth of that before the epidemic. A large number of passengers still need to transit between China and the United States.
As mentioned in the latest announcement of the U.S. Department of Transportation, we hope to maintain a sustained and fruitful dialogue with China to achieve the goal of gradually and more extensive reopening of the U.S. - China aviation service market. Under this goal, we hope to further normalize flights between China and the United States in the summer of 2024 in the northern hemisphere.
At the recently held press conference of the Civil Aviation Administration, Liang Nan, Director of the Transportation Department of the Civil Aviation Administration, also said that in the next stage, the Civil Aviation Administration will continue to encourage and support Chinese and foreign airlines to actively resume international passenger flights, improve the international route network, and provide better guarantee for the work of stabilizing foreign trade and foreign capital and the exchange of Chinese and foreign personnel.
The ticket price of China US routes has halved since the beginning of the year
It is worth noting that American Airlines, which has not been very active in increasing flights between China and the United States before, will also increase flights after October.
After the US Department of Transportation approved the new flight increase of China Airlines, the number of direct flights between China and the United States is expected to increase to 90 pairs after November in accordance with the principle of reciprocity and the increase of American Airlines.
With the increase of flights between China and the United States, the previously high ticket prices of flights between China and the United States, which are often tens of thousands, have also begun to fall, especially in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the low-lying areas.
A number of industry insiders analyzed the reporter that Los Angeles is currently the largest destination for airlines to fly routes between China and the United States, and the latest approved flights between China and the United States are concentrated in San Francisco, so the increase in capacity will bring about a greater decline in ticket prices. In addition, it has entered the traditional off-season of China US routes, and the overall ticket price also has room for decline.
On the Qunar platform, the air ticket price between Shanghai and Los Angeles has dropped from 15000 yuan at the beginning of the year to 10000 yuan in the summer, to about 8000 yuan in September, and now it has dropped to 7000 yuan in November.
Two weeks ago, China Southern Airlines released a tax inclusive fare as low as more than 4000 yuan on the round-trip route from Shanghai/Guangzhou to Wuhan to San Francisco, which is close to the pre epidemic low.
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