China July air passenger traffic down 30.8% y/y

China’s July air passenger traffic rebounded to 57.3% of the 2019 level, the country’s aviation regulator said on Thursday, as the airline industry slowly recovers from widespread COVID-19 lockdowns that paralysed travel demand. Still, July passenger traffic was down 30.8% from a year earlier, an official at the Civil Aviation Administration of China told an online press conference.<br/>
Reuters
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8/18/22