China’s Spring Festival: Go figure

Saturday, 15 Mar, 2007 0

BEIJING: China’s airlines carried 20 million passengers during this year’s 40-day Spring Festival, up 13 per cent on last year, according to sources within the Civil Aviation Administration of China.

The number of people traveling by air rose 21 per cent to 3.71 million during the week-long Spring Festival holiday that ran from February 18-24.

On February 22, the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, 519,000 people traveled by air. The figure soared to 620,000 on February 24, the last day of the statutory holiday.

A total of 2.05 billion intercity bus trips were taken in China during this year’s Spring Festival. About 70,000 long-distance buses were in service during the 40 days and half of them ran in rural areas.



 

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