As many as 59.04 million Chinese people traveled by air during the 40-day Spring Festival travel season, or "Chunyun period" from January 13 to February 21, an increase of 14% over the same period last year, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) announced Tuesday.

More than 552,000 flights were operated during the travel peak, up 11.2% year on year, according to statistics released by the CAAC. To meet dramatic travel demands, airlines have deployed sufficient capacity for the holiday travel rush. Passenger load factor rose 2 percentage points to 84.2%.

Specifically, daily passenger numbers exceeded 1.59 million on peak days, hitting a record high among the Spring Festival holidays.

Data shows that large departing passengers' flow was handled at airports in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Kunming, Chengdu, Xi'an and Chongqing. Beijing and Shanghai topped among all Chinese airports with the most outbound passengers.

During the period before Spring Festival Holiday, the passenger load factor remained high on hot domestic routes departing from Shenzhen, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Lhasa; while after the holiday, tourist destinations like Xishuang Banna, Sanya and Lijiang kept high passenger load factor.

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