Preliminary statistics from the Civil Aviation Administration of China shows that China's civil aviation industry had 30882 flights during the May Day holiday, which was an increase of 12% compared with the same period last year, and it received 3.62 million passengers, up 19% over the same period of 2006.

Different from past years, there are four main characteristics of this year's air travel. First, the passengers chose to depart earlier this year. The daily passenger departure rate increased from April 25 and it reached the peak on April 30 at 3972 flights and 536000 passengers, respectively, which was an historical high.

Second, besides traditional hot travel cities like Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Kunming, Haikou, Sanya and Xishuang Banna, other cities like Changchun, Chengdu, Zhangjiajie, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Shantou, Yinchuan, Wenzhou, Zhoushan, Guilin and Beihai also saw a big increase of tourists during the holiday.

Third, there was sufficient transportation capacity to meet tourist demand.

Finally, there was a daily passenger flow of 460000 on the average during the seven-day holiday, and the seat occupancy reached 71%.

(average: 3.00 out of 5)

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