Can't I grab a ticket to China?Why is it so difficult to return home in the summer

15.08.2022

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Introduction: Even if it has passed the peak season, the business class price of the US airline company at the end of August is still stabilized at 120,000, and the economy class is close to 60,000.

Author | First Finance Chen Shanshan

"Is there a drama to return to China next summer vacation?"

After seeing the news of Hong Kong's entry isolation time, Xiaohao wrote the above paragraph in his circle of friends.

A year ago, he wrote in his circle of friends and "celebrated the first international charter flight of the first international charter flight to New York Kennedy Airport!"

Xiaohao is studying at the University of Amboride Aeronautics and Astronautics. During the epidemic in 2020, he obtained the school's admission notice. After one year of online class in China, he obtained a visa to school in the United States in 2021.

At that time, due to the number of flights in China and the United States, there were only a handful of flights, and the demand for going to the United States due to the sudden surge in the United States. Applying for a charter to the airline, flying to the United States in mid -August 2021.

However, after a year later, Xiao Hao found that returning to China to return to China has become a big problem.

One ticket to return to China is hard to find

From May to August each year is the summer time of American universities. It is also from May that the returning tickets have also begun to rise.

For example, in January this year, when the airline app queried the New York return ticket in April, the economic class fare was about 20,000 yuan, but the return ticket to China in June had risen to about 40,000 yuan.

The more expensive the fare is if it is a late purchase time, the closer it is to return to China. For example, in March, inquiries to return to China at the end of June, the price rose 10,000, and the economy class often showed no tickets.

If it is a return ticket to the country by April, the economic class tickets departing within 1 month have risen to more than 10,000 US dollars, and the economy class is basically not grabbed.

"Compared with China's airlines, the fare of American airlines in the peak season of returning to China is more expensive, and often the economy class cannot be bought at the peak of May, and the business class is as high as more than 100,000 yuan," Xiaohao told Xiaohao told Reporter, "These are also queried by the airline's official website. It may be more expensive if you buy it from the ticket, and you may not be a real ticket."

Even if it has passed the peak season, the business class price of the US airline company at the end of August is still stable at 120,000, and the economy class is close to 60,000.

Such a high fare is not a patent in the United States. At the end of last year, Turkish Airlines flew from Economy Class from Istanbul to Guangzhou, with a maximum of 200,000 yuan, and the business class exceeded 250,000.

Such economic class fares have left the prices of official planes at the beginning of the outbreak of the epidemic. In the first half of 2020, when the Civil Aviation Administration also allowed official aircraft to perform a return flight, the price of each seat was up to 180,000 yuan. In 2019 before the epidemic, from London to Shanghai by London, the business class of the two -stage voyage only took 13,000 yuan to buy it.

In addition to Turkish Airlines, Emirates, Emirates, and Etihad Airlines in the Middle East also have more than 100,000 fares for economy class. However, this price is mostly transferred to at least two floors and increased prices: from airlines to chartered vendors, and then charter manufacturers to air ticket agents or travel agencies. It is an ox with a ticket or customer resources.

Who has pushed up the fare back to China

The fare of returning to China is not the highest, the highest is higher. The most direct reason is that the supply of returning flights is in short supply.

At present, the principle of the "five one" policy of international flights is still there, especially the Sino -US direct flights. At present, there are only 18 classes per week, which is far from the one -day class before the epidemic.

What is even more anxious is that these one of the few returning flights is often tushed.

According to the statistics of Weibo bloggers@North American Ticket Emperor, in the first half of 2022, a flight from the United States to Mainland China planned to perform 472 classes, actively implemented 278 classes, accounting for 58.9%of the planned flight; 41.1%of the planned flight. Among them, the actual flight was the least in February, and only 18 flights were performed throughout the month. The most in May, 70 flights were performed.

If you look at the specific cancellation cause, you can find that the flight was fused. A total of 124 flights were fused in the first half of the year, accounting for 63.9%of the total number of flights. Among them, China Southern Airlines CZ328 Los Angeles-Guangzhou flights have been suspended for 14 weeks due to melting and regular cancellation. Air China ’s CA988 Los Angeles-Beijing (Tianjin) flights have also been suspended for 12 weeks.

Not only in the United States, because of the more contagiousness of Omikon's mutant strains, from the perspective of all returning flights in the first half of this year, the fusing flight also increased a lot compared to the same period last year.

For example, from April 24th to June 19th, 2022, the statistics of the flight butler show that in the past two months, a total of 4584 international passenger flights (including passenger changes and passenger charters) were performed, with an average daily of about 80.4 classes. In the same period last year, the 10558 Class International Passenger Flights were performed, with an average of about 185.2 daily, which was 2.3 times that of this year.

According to the disconnection notice issued by the Civil Aviation Administration, from June 1st to 15th, 82 inbound flights that were canceled due to fuse were reached. During the same period last year, only 11 flights were triggered by the inbound flight, and 26 classes were canceled due to melting. There are fewer flights and large demand to return to China, which has spawned tickets from all parties. Many international students and parents will stay up late to brush the official website of the Hangs Department, holding multiple air tickets in their hands to prevent which classes cannot be returned.

The ticket agent and even ox with more technical means of ticket swiping have begun to use the identity information of the original ticket customers to occupy the ticket hoarding.

Recently, many netizens have been exposed on social platforms. Some people use their own identity to buy air tickets for many returning flights in the next two months. After the alarm, they were told that they might be stolen by others.

According to the reporter's understanding, there are indeed some ox stealing multiple -person information hoarding seats. When passengers with real needs to return to China are looking for scalpel to buy tickets, the ox will concentrate on refunding the ticket, waiting for the aircraft to release the remaining tickets, and sell the price to sell it to those who have a real return to the country. passenger. Of course, the refund fee generated by the refund of tickets is also paid by passengers receiving the price increase.

More new channels for returning to China

Can't buy a direct flight ticket to China, coupled with the time to return to China and the uncertainty of whether it is melted, so that Xiao Hao, who has not returned home a year, finally gave up the plan to return to China during the summer, although this summer vacation has grown up this summer vacation to reach up Four months.

However, some recent changes in the policy of returning to China have made Xiaohao's hope of returning to China next year.

On June 28, the State Council released the ninth edition of the new crown pneumonia prevention and control plan, shortening the isolation and control time of immigration personnel from 14+7 to 7+3 (7 days of centralized isolation medical observation+3 Heavenly House health monitoring).

On July 1, the Chinese Embassy in the United States released the specific arrangement for the pre -testing of the personnel to go to China, canceled the requirements of nucleic acid detection and 12 hours before the departure before taking off, and the antibody detection of the antibody detection 2 days before taking off was changed to nucleic acid detection. , And no longer specify the nucleic acid detection agency, as long as the CLIA certification institution can be reduced, not only the cost of nucleic acid detection is greatly reduced, but also more convenient travel.

In addition, starting in the second half of the year, a new transit passage is opened: the Hong Kong government will shorten the centralized isolation time of vaccine entry personnel according to regulations to 7 days of hotel isolation (recently shortened to three days of hotel isolation quarantine and four -day home medical monitoring. ), This means that although some compatriots in foreign countries cannot be transferred directly to the Mainland at the Hong Kong Airport, they can use passports to survive for 7 days to separate their visa -free visa for 7 days, and then return to the Mainland. However, after returning to the Mainland, centralized isolation is needed.

Although it takes more isolation time to return to China through this route, because Hong Kong has no "five one" policy restrictions on international flights, European and American routes basically have flights every day. It is much cheaper, and you can buy it directly on the official website of the airline company.

For example, direct flight from the United Kingdom only needs to be less than 10,000 yuan, and even buying about 5,000 yuan in economy class seats in early buying early, while Thailand and other Southeast Asian cities can fly directly to Hong Kong as low as 1,000 yuan.

However, the current number of flights to return to the Mainland in Hong Kong is still restricted. For example, there are only one flight from Hong Kong to Shanghai every week. In addition, most mainland cities strictly control the 50%passenger rate on Hong Kong flights (recently relaxed to 75%in some cities).

This situation has also attracted a lot of scalpel tickets to occupy Hong Kong-to-Mainland routes. The Hong Kong-Mainland economy-class tickets with a full price of two or three thousand yuan are often coaxed to nearly 10,000 yuan.

At the same time, when returning to the Mainland through land, you also need to make an appointment for the isolation facilities (health stations) in Shenzhen in advance or a bus ticket to Zhuhai. above.

However, Xiaohao also noticed that more new channels to return to China are being opened. At a press conference held on June 17, the Civil Aviation Administration of China stated that at present, under the overall planning of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council, the Civil Aviation Administration is negotiating with some countries to gradually and steadily increase regular international passenger flights to meet personnel needs Essence

*The interviewee's request, Xiaohao is a pseudonym

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