High flight prices irk holiday travelers

With the eight-day Spring Festival holiday drawing to an end, some tourists to South China's Hainan province are discovering their return journeys are more expensive than they expected.

Many tourists have complained on social media that the prices for flights leaving the province have surged to unbearable highs, China Radio International reported on Thursday.

Several airlines have said their economy-class tickets for the last three days of the holiday, from Thursday to Saturday, had almost sold out, and that there were limited seats still available in business class.