Air travel data shows a rise in baby passengers during the Spring Festival travel rush as a result of the general second-child policy. Travel agency Ctrip’s ticket sales show that the number of babies on airplanes during the Spring Festival travel rush, also known as “chunyun”, has risen 18 percent compared to last year.
The growth in the number of baby passengers is double the increase in ticket sales for children. This trend is linked to the introduction of the general second-child policy last year which allows all couples to have a second child.
The data also shows that flights to and from Beijing were the most expensive among all Chinese cities, costing more than 2,800 yuan ($400) per ticket. Shanghai came the next with an average ticket price of about 2,600 yuan.
The number of passengers flying first-class or business-class has risen by 131 percent compared to last year. That is partly because of the difficulty in securing a ticket during the festival travel rush, and partly because of an increasingly higher demand for quality services for Chinese people's deeper pockets.
When it came to the most popular tickets, flights from Shanghai to Hotan were top of the list. Tickets for flights from Beijing to Tonghua were the next hardest to buy.
This year’s chunyun started on Jan. 13 and ended on Feb. 21. The peak for the travel rush was from Jan. 24 to 26, right before the Lunar New Year, and from Feb. 2 to 4 when the holiday finished.
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