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China’s Aviation Market Is Now Smaller Than Portugal’s

Matthew Klint Posted onFebruary 19, 2020February 19, 2020 7 Comments

Just over a month ago, China was the third largest international aviation market in the world behind the United States and United Kingdom. Now it ranks between Portugal and Vietnam.

China was on an ascent, set to take over the United States as the largest international aviation market in the world later this decade. But Coronavirus fears have placed a roadblock toward that goal.

Over the last five weeks, China has slashed international capacity by 80%. Japan, Thailand, and Taiwan have been hit the hardest, but China has reduced or suspended service to regions around the world.

Japan has lost the most seats (245,000) with Thailand close behind at 236,000. But in terms of percentage loss, Taiwan has lost 90% of seats while Hong Kong has lost 85% of its seats.

China now falls behind Portugal in terms of international capacity and ranks only slightly ahead of Vietnam according to an OAG report.

China Southern and China Eastern have been hit hardest in terms of international capacity. To put this in perceptive, China Southern now operates only 800 more international seats per week (and that is including Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan) than Air Astana. Meanwhile, China Eastern has dropped to 113th place when it comes to global ranking, falling just ahead of Tunis Air.

The domestic Chinese market has been hurt even more. This week, Chinese carriers will offer 10.4 million fewer seats than before the Coronavirus outbreak went viral. That means for every one International seat lost, China lost six domestic seats. China Eastern will operate 271,000 fewer seats per day than five weeks ago.

CONCLUSION

Until the Coronavirus is contained, expect more cancellations. Aviation cancellations in China have eclipsed all past health scares. The market will certainly recover eventually, but long-term growth may be compromised for years even once normality returns.

image: 王之桐 / Wikimedia Commons

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Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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7 Comments

  1. debit Reply
    February 19, 2020 at 4:20 pm

    Now that the rich dumbfuxks have made all the money moving jobs to china suddenly they think china is a moral enemy.

    If we are a capitalist country we should be allowed to hang yourselves by competing with each other to send the crown jewels to china. Capitalism is supposed to be self correcting without government interference
    Once the capitalist figure out that they have given away everything to China while competing with each other they will wake up once it’s too late. Why is the government made of capitalists intervening in a free market?

    Hypocrites.

  2. Xi Reply
    February 20, 2020 at 1:01 am

    Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving country!

  3. Ken Y. Reply
    February 20, 2020 at 5:28 am

    Flew Shanghai-Osaka-Shanghai on MU over Valentine’s Day weekend for a stay at Noborioji Hotel, Nara. Outbound flight had 15-20 poeple and inbound had maybe 30 people: it was heaven not to be packed like sardines with Chinese mainlanders.

  4. Ak Reply
    February 20, 2020 at 10:41 am

    Stories of China’s ascent are greatly exaggerated. Keep in mind their per Capita GDP is 1/7th the USA’s and about half the world’s average.

  5. Christian Reply
    February 20, 2020 at 12:39 pm

    Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of Communists!

  6. Ryan Reply
    February 20, 2020 at 8:30 pm

    Wow a lot of people in the comment section sure sound like racist to me, just saying…

  7. Ken Y. Reply
    February 21, 2020 at 2:51 am

    No, Ryan, it is about an authoritarian regime built upon a feudal system of corruption that has put one million plus Uighurs in concentration camps and curtailed basic human rights for its 1.5 billion population.

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