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Spring Festival passenger peak

Chinese hit the road for New Year travel peak

The Chinese are on the move. Hundreds of millions of people have clamored aboard cars, buses, planes and trains to return to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year in an annual event that stretches the country's transport system to near its breaking point.

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·	3.71 mln Chinese take flights in Spring Festival holiday
	China's airlines carried 3.71 million passengers during this year's week-long Spring Festival holiday, up 21 percent year on year, according to preliminary estimate by the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
·	Guangdong railway stations see passenger peak as Spring Festival holiday ends
	Railway stations in south China's Guangdong Province reported a peak passenger flow of 490,000 travelers on Saturday as the week-long Spring Festival holiday came to the end. Most of the
·	Chinese hit the road for New Year travel peak
	THE Chinese are on the move. Hundreds of millions of people have clamored aboard cars, buses, planes and trains to return to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year in an annual event that stretches the
·	Beijing Capital Airport expects record passenger rush on New Year's Eve
	Passenger flow at the Beijing Capital International Airport is expected to hit 160,000 on Saturday, the eve of China's Lunar New Year, airport sources said. The figure is a daily record for the
·	Mainland airlines begin direct festival charter flights to Taiwan
	China Eastern (CE) was the first Chinese mainland airline on Wednesday to operate return flights across the Taiwan Strait between Shanghai and Taipei during the Spring Festival. CE was followed by
·	Chinese mainland, Taiwan charter flights enter peak period before festival
	The charter flights between Chinese mainland and Taiwan for the traditional Spring Festival entered the peak period on Thursday. There were 18 round-trip flights operated by 12 airline companies


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·	Mainland airlines begin direct festival charter flights to Taiwan

·	Passenger rush begin for Spring Festival reunion
	China's railway system is expected to carry some 155 million people over the upcoming Chinese New Year period, the most ever, as people flood home for the traditional festival, a senior official said this week. (Source: Reuters)
·	Passenger rush to come
	A woman carries her child as she walks past a platform at a railway station in Xiamen, south China's Fujian Province, January 30, 2007. The country's railway system is expecting more than 150 million passengers around the
·	Temporary trains ease up traffic surge

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