Jinwu Financial News | Aviation stocks generally rose. Meilan Airport (00357) rose 7.01%, Beijing Capital Airport shares (00694) rose 3.07%, China Southern Airlines (01055) rose 2.44%, China Eastern Airlines (00670) rose 2.03%, and Air China (00753) rose 1.8%.
According to the news, the International Aviation Association released regular global air passenger traffic data for March 2024. Total air passenger traffic (calculated based on passenger kilometers or RPKs) increased 13.8% year on year; total capacity (calculated based on available seat kilometers or ASK) increased 12.3% year on year; passenger load rate in March was 82.0%, up 1 percentage point year on year. Demand from Asia Pacific Airlines increased 38.5% year over year, leading other regions. Among them, capacity increased 37.4% year over year, and passenger capacity increased 0.7 percentage points year over year to 85.6%, the highest level among all regions.
According to flight management platform data, in the 18th week of 2024 (2024.4.29-5.5), civil aviation across the country carried out a total of 105,000 passenger flights, an average of 15,108 flights per day. Among them, the number of domestic flights was 92,06, +5.87% per week, recovering to 112.7% in 2019; the number of international and regional flights was 10,997, +3.28% week over week, recovering to 74.5% in 2019.