Every month we track the travel recovery in China. As the recovery is now underway, we look specifically at the return of European travel to, and from, China. 2019 saw the culmination of a period of growth in services between China and Europe – using key flight data, we explore how these routes look now.
China – Europe 2014
As the below route map from 2014 illustrates, services had operated between China’s main cities and predominantly European capital cities for many years.; with services between 15 Chinese cities and 19 European cities. All of the European routes were to capital cities except for:
- Germany where Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and Munich were served, as well as Berlin,
- Switzerland where Zurich and Geneva had services, rather than Bern,
- UK which had three routes, two to London operating to Heathrow and Gatwick and one to Birmingham.
China -Europe 2019
Fast-forward five years and by 2019 the China-European market had seen considerable expansion in the number of…
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