In 6 days; 10,000 Flights Cancelled Due to Coronavirus

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Source: cirium

Cirium analysis reveals 92% of all scheduled flights to and from Wuhan the city at the epicenter of the latest outbreak did not fly between January 23 and 28. Of the 2,606 flights that were set to fly in and out of the city, which is home to 11 million people, a total of 2,406 services did not take place over this period.


According to Cirium, a total of 90,607 domestic and international flights were scheduled to operate across mainland China over the six-day period, between January 23 and January 28, out of which 9,807 did not fly. This represents a sizeable 10.8% of the countrys overall scheduled flights.


During this period Shanghai-based China Eastern Airlines was the most heavily affected carrier by total number flights that did not operate. A total of 1,591 of its services were affected including 1,529 domestic and 62 international.


This was closely followed by China Southern Airlines with 1,510 flights, including 1,425 domestic and 85 international, which did not take off. Xiamen Airlines suffered 837 unoperated flights, including 828 domestic and nine international services.


In terms of percentage of flights that did not operate, the airline 9 Air a subsidiary of Juneyao Airlines was also hit hard. Approximately 77% (46 in total) of all the carriers planned international flights did not fly, in addition to 27% (140 in total) of its domestic services between January 23 and January 28.


The airports that experienced the highest number of scheduled flights that did not operate were, as expected, Wuhan (2,406 out of 2,606), as well as Beijing Capital (920 out of 9,113) and Guangzhou (829 out of 8,236), followed by Shanghai Hongqiao and Xian to a lesser extent.


The routes with the largest number of unoperated flights were all domestic, with the Beijing to Shanghai service topping the list. This was closely followed by routes to and from Wuhan, particularly the highly-popular Wuhan to Beijing route


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