“More than 21 million passengers will travel by air during the holiday period,” Jin Junhao, a deputy director at the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said at a briefing in Beijing on Sept 15. Just domestically, there will be some 14,000 domestic flights a day, according to the regulator.
After a strong summer, China’s travel market is about to get another boost as the Golden Week holiday arrives. More than 21 million people are expected to take flights in the space of eight days — the equivalent of almost everyone in Australia getting on a plane in a little over a week.
The Sept 29-Oct 6 holiday encompasses both Mid-Autumn festival and the National Day break, which does not always happen as the date of the former depends on the lunar calendar.
