Air travel records healthy performance

Air travel during the combined National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday period put on a surprisingly strong performance, signaling a healthy recovery for local tourism, the national aviation authority said on Friday.

A total of 13.26 million airline passenger trips were made during the eight-day holiday, compared with 12.8 million airline trips during the seven-day holiday in 2019, said the Civil Aviation Administration of China.

"Daily air passenger trips during the holiday equaled 91 percent of last year's daily air travel over the same period," it said.