The Hunan Airport Management Group announced on May 6 that during the May Day holiday, Hunan’s airports handled 532,000 passenger trips and 4,036 flights during the five-day holiday, an increase of 8.4% and 10% respectively over the same period in 2019.

On May 4, the daily passenger flow in Hunan’s airports reached 120,000 and that in Changsha Airport reached 92,600, both reaching a record high since COVID-19 epidemic began. Changsha Airport handled 405,000 passenger trips and 2,949 flights during the holiday, an increase of 6.7% and 9.7% respectively over the same period in 2019.

During the May Day holiday this year, the domestic passenger flow at Hunan’s airports increased 20.5% over the same period in 2019, and that at Changsha Airport increased 19%. There was a more diversified passenger flow in Changsha Airport than previous years, with a majority of passengers going to the south and the east. The main destinations included Haikou, Xi'an, Beijing, Kunming, Shanghai, Sanya, Xiamen, and Chengdu.

This article is from Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Xiao Juan

Chinese source: hunan.voc.com.cn