Hunan's airports have embraced the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush since January 26.

Hunan's airports are predicted to handle four million passenger trips during the 40-day travel rush period, increasing by 39 percent over 2023 and 11 percent over 2019. The Changsha Huanghua International Airport is predicted to handle 3.36 million passenger trips, up 35.5 percent over last year and 12.3 percent over 2019. The travel peak will fall on February 16, the seventh day of Chinese lunar new year. The passenger throughput at Hunan's airports will exceed 110,000 on that single day, and the figure of Changsha airport will hit 90,000.

During the Spring Festival travel rush, Hunan's airports will open new air routes or increase frequency of flights for the air transport from Changsha to Guangzhou, Xi'an, Shanghai, Haikou, Quanzhou, Xuzhou, and Dalian. Changde Taohuayuan Airport will open new routes or add flight frequency on the routes towards Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Zhuhan. Huaihua Zhijiang Airport will operate new routes and more frequent flights towards Guangzhou, Kunming, and Nanjing. Chenzhou Beihu Airport will open a new air route to Shanghai.

For international transport, Changsha Huanghua Airport will operate air routes to eight destination cities around the world during that period, namely Nairobi, Bangkok, London, Seoul, Phnom Penh, Vientiane, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur. Meanwhile, it will add frequency of the flights between Changsha and Bangkok according to the necessity, and resume the routes towards Nha Trang, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam. Zhangjiajie Hehua Airport will operate air routes linking ten regions and international destinations, namely Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Busan, Daegu, Muan, Seoul, Cheongju, Kuala Lumpur, and Hong Kong SAR.

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

Translator: Pang Yuehui

Chinese source: Voice of Hunan