With the explosive growth of Chinese tourists to Australia in recent years, airlines have also launched Australian routes in an attempt to take a slice of the potential market.
However, today, the Australian media was brushed by a piece of news!
The major aviation departments have cut back on Australian flights! Australian air tickets will be forced to soar!
What exactly happened!
Let the hot Qantas market, suddenly send out this shocking news to the world.
Why the ticket suddenly skyrocketed, all this, but also have to start with the ticket of cabbage price!
In recent years, the Australian market, which has been overcompeted by major airlines, has turned into cabbage prices, making Australian friends happy and crazy.
Impression Jun this month twice round trip to Chengdu, and each round trip ticket price, unexpectedly less than 2000 yuan!
One is China Eastern Airlines, the other is Xiamen Airlines, from Sydney to Chengdu, more than 1900 RMB prices, can really be said to be cheap to crazy!
In the coming June, the student holiday peak, China Eastern Airlines ticket, still costs only 2200 yuan.
However, the excessive growth of Australian routes does not seem to have made a lot of money for major airlines, and with high oil prices and stagnant passenger numbers, these airlines have soon been hit by reality.
Major airlines cut Australian flights, ticket prices or skyrocketing.
Australians may need to be prepared for higher ticket prices because they are unable to cope with increased refueling costs and overseas airlines will implement their first passenger capacity reduction plan in more than a decade, Australian online reported on the 24th.
Australia's international passenger capacity has grown at an annual rate of about 5 percent over the past 10 years, the report said.
Australian government data show the total number of seats flying overseas from Australia.
It has risen from 31 million in 2008 to 54 million in 2018.
But between October 2018 and the end of March this year, the total number of passenger seats flying overseas in Australia fell by about 1 percent, according to flight schedule data used by airlines.
This is the first time since 2005 that Australia has seen a decline in international summer passenger capacity.
Australia's attractiveness to Chinese tourists has been declining and has slipped out of the top three in six months, ABC News reported.
(UBS), a Swiss bank, has launched a survey of outbound travel intentions in first and second tier cities in China.
There has been a huge decline in the number of interested visitors to Australia and Sydney.
At the same time, there are figures showing that the growth in air capacity between Macao and China in the first half of 2019 is only 2%, while the long-term average is 4%.
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"if there are no relatively new marketing innovations, it does give a sense of boredom. Now in the tourism market, people need to attract repeat customers, if not too new, will naturally feel bored and boring. "
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In response, Weber, an adviser to the Institute of Aviation Intelligence and Research, said the situation was mainly due to higher crude oil prices.
Over the past two years, crude oil prices have risen by about 45 percent, making Australia's long-distance flight services less feasible.
Data show that some international airlines are reducing flights to Australia.
In response, Webber said that this is a good thing for local airlines such as Australian Virgin Airlines.
However, he also said that due to the decline in supply, "it is certain that the price of air tickets will rise sharply."
Air China quietly out of the back of the. Vicious competition has already laid the groundwork.
According to the data, there are seven airlines flying directly to mainland China and Australia, nine of which are domestic airlines: air China, China Eastern Airlines, Southern Airlines, Sichuan Airlines, Xiamen Airlines, and so on. Two foreign airlines: Qantas, Jetstar Airlines.
Meanwhile, Air China recently said on its official Weibo that Air China had decided to suspend Shanghai-Sydney-Shanghai and Shanghai-Melbourne-Shanghai routes from March 31, 2019.
It is reported that Air China once opened the Beijing-Shanghai-Sydney route was the first route to Australia in Shanghai.
In recent years, a number of regional airlines in China have opened a number of routes to Australia, the latest of which is Hainan Airlines's Haikou Melbourne route, which opened in December last year.
Sichuan Airlines will open Urumqi via Chongqing to Sydney on January 21.
The Australian Tourism Board did not positively comment on the cancellation of Air China flights to ABC, noting only that China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines are the two largest carriers on routes between the two countries, while Air China will strengthen the daily capacity of its Beijing-Sydney route in winter. "
Professor Huang Songshan pointed out that after more and more domestic second-tier cities join the competition between China and Australia, they have dispersed the Australian market share of the three first-tier cities in the north and Guangzhou, and the three major airports.
He also pointed out that as a result of increased competition, unhealthy fare wars and the use of many non-commercial means of competition will disrupt the market and have a long-term negative impact.
Fierce competition in the Australian route market has not only brought about a decline in the overall revenue of the major airlines, but also reduced the ability to maintain routes.
In any case, more airlines will take action to adjust the scope of their Australian routes to reduce losses for some time to come.
Impression conclusion
The era of domestic flights to Australian cabbage prices may be coming to an end. If you want to return home to visit friends and relatives, hurry to seize the last wave of opportunities, or book tickets that you want to return in advance.
Otherwise, if you want to return home to play in the future, the ticket will not be cheap.