Summer transport above pre-pandemic level
Yichang's transport sector has been busier this summer than before the pandemic.
Yichang Sanxia Airport recorded 5,605 takeoffs and landings from July 1 to August 31, 53 percent up on pandemic-hit 2022 and 11.5 percent higher than 2019. Passenger throughput reached 649,300, only 1.6 percent lower than in 2019.
Popular domestic destinations include Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Beijing, Guiyang, and Chengdu, as well as popular tourist cities like Kunming, Chongqing, Haikou, and Hohhot.
The Yichang railway sector has also been busy.
Over the summer, a total of 4.01 million passengers transited through the Yichang railway section, a figure very close to that for the summer of 2019. In addition, three chartered tourist trains carried more than 2,000 passengers to visit northern destinations, including Mohe in Heilongjiang and Jining in Inner Mongolia.
Yichang's railway also moved 42,797 freight cars and 2.08 million tons of goods, an increase of nearly 10 percent compared to 2019.
