Civil aviation reports solid recovery in H1

China's civil aviation sustained the continuous recovery momentum in the first half of 2023 as the transport volume basically returned to the level of the same period in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic, the country's civil aviation authority said Tuesday.

According to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), daily domestic flights amounted to 12,076 on average in the first six months of this year, an increase of 5.14 percent over the same period in 2019. An average of over 1.52 million passengers were handled daily, 96.5 percent of the 2019 level.

In the first half of the year, 590 cargo flights were guaranteed per day, a rise of 58.2 percent over the same period in 2019, said the administration.

In this period, the total transport turnover, passenger transport and freight transport of the sector were 53.13 billion ton-kilometers, 284 million person-trips and 3.276 million tons, respectively, recovering to 84.6 percent, 88.2 percent and 93.1 percent of the same period in 2019.

The civil aviation industry's transport scale has largely recovered to the level of the same period in 2019, with the sector showing positive momentum of steady recovery, safe operation, and orderly competition, said the CAAC.