Chinese operators have ramped up their Australia capacity with China Eastern increasing its Sydney-Shanghai flights to thrice weekly starting January 19, 2022. Air China will resume its Sydney services with thrice weekly flights from February 2023.
Xiamen Air has doubled its flights between Sydney and the southern port city of Xiamen to twice weekly. Interestingly, Xiamen Air was the only Chinese carrier to keep flying to Melbourne during the pandemic years, maintaining a single weekly flight.
China Southern will resume Melbourne-Guangzhou direct flights towards the end of January 2023. Besides the airline will also ramp up its existing daily services between Sydney and Guangzhou to ten per week starting March 2023.
China Eastern Airlines will maintain its thrice weekly schedule between Shanghai and Sydney.
Meanwhile, International capacity to and from China scheduled for February 2023 has risen by 23% over the last week and for March by 13% over the same period, according to Cirium data. The report further expects a major jump in capacity in April 2023, once the summer airline schedule season begins on March 26, 2023.