DOMESTIC SKIES: Air Capacity in China

This year marks the return of our popular country by country air capacity statistics series. Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. We take a look at last year’s schedule as a snapshot and compare seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by OAG Aviation using its OAG Schedules Analyser tool.

DOMESTIC SKIES: SCHEDULED AIR CAPACITY IN CHINA (non-stop departures; 2013)

Rank

Airline

Available Seats

% Share

% Change v 2012

1

China Southern Airlines (CZ)

88,098,558

20.8 %

6.4 %

2

China Eastern Airlines (MU)

75,381,092

17.8 %

10.2 %

3

Air China (CA)

55,007,727

13.0 %

3.5 %

4

Hainan Airlines (HU)

29,981,947

7.1 %

15.1 %

5

Shenzhen Airlines (ZH)

27,362,741

6.5 %

12.1 %

6

Xiamen Airlines Company (MF)

22,717,136

5.4 %

3.7 %

7

Sichuan Airlines (3U)

20,909,436

4.9 %

13.9 %

8

Shandong Airlines (SC)

19,806,890

4.7 %

17.5 %

9

Shanghai Airlines (FM)

13,640,419

3.2 %

(-1.3) %

10

Tianjin Airlines (GS)

11,519,140

2.7 %

38.2 %

11

Beijing Capital Airlines (JD)

9,165,686

2.2 %

28.8 %

12

Spring Airlines (9C)

9,135,900

2.2 %

6.8 %

13

Juneyao Airlines (HO)

8,114,028

1.9 %

27.2 %

14

China United Airlines (KN)

6,721,858

1.6 %

37.2 %

15

Lucky Air (8L)

6,381,262

1.5 %

32.7 %

TOTAL

424,201,418

-

11.0 %

DOMESTIC SKIES: SCHEDULED AIR CAPACITY IN CHINA (non-stop departures; 2013)

Rank

Airport

Available Seats

% Share

% Change v 2012

1

Beijing (PEK)

40,632,977

9.6 %

1.8 %

2

Guangzhou (CAN)

25,667,806

6.1 %

3.7 %

3

Shanghai (SHA)

20,934,721

4.9 %

1.7 %

4

Shenzhen (SZX)

18,627,513

4.4 %

6.0 %

5

Chengdu (CTU)

18,459,571

4.4 %

4.5 %

6

Kunming (KMG)

18,151,478

4.3 %

34.1 %

7

Xi’an (XIY)

16,583,372

3.9 %

12.2 %

8

Shanghai (PVG)

15,793,748

3.7 %

1.2 %

9

Chongqing (CKG)

13,850,890

3.3 %

7.5 %

10

Hangzhou (HGH)

12,529,305

3.0 %

16.4 %

11

Xiamen (XMN)

10,924,817

2.6 %

15.0 %

12

Changsha (CSX)

9,943,412

2.3 %

8.8 %

13

Wuhan (WUH)

9,593,584

2.3 %

12.4 %

14

Urumqi (URC)

9,065,306

2.1 %

14.8 %

15

Nanjing (NKG)

8,778,987

2.1 %

3.4 %

TOTAL

424,201,418

-

11.0 %

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Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…