Statistics released by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) show that China's civil aviation industry total turnover grew 12.5% to 7.39 billion tonne-kilometers in July 2015 compared to the year-ago period.
Some 39.15 million people traveled by air during July – a year-on-year increase of 9.2%. The number of passengers travelling on domestic and international flights increased 7.6% and 26.7% respectively to 35.5 million and 3.65 million, while those travelling on Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan routes declined 1.7% from a year earlier to 870,000.
The passenger load factor increased 1.1 percentage points to 83.3%, while the aircraft utilization rate for July averaged 9.9 hours per day, including 10 hours per day for medium and large aircraft and 6.9 hours per day for small aircraft.