DATA SPOTLIGHT: Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport

20 August, 2020

This year The Blue Swan Daily will feature some of the leading airlines, airports and country markets for air travel. Here, using the extensive profile insights available to CAPA – Centre for Aviation members, we deliver a data snapshot on Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, which most weeks since early Jun-2020 has been ranked as the world’s largest airport by seat capacity.

The China hub has seen traffic levels recover and in Jul-2020 demand was down just a third on the same month in 2019. Travel restrictions continued to impact international passenger levels, which were down -96.7% year-on-year during the month, but the domestic market had returned to levels nearing the previous year, down just -13.1% and exceeding the four million passenger milestone.

The return in demand is not quite tracking with capacity though with domestic movements actually down just -1.1% compared to Jul-2019. On 30-Jul-2020, the airport reportedly handled 153,600 passengers, marking the first time the airport exceeded 150,000 passengers per day since the outbreak of coronavirus.

The airport has now implemented IATA's One ID initiative at terminal 1, for passengers aged 12 and older travelling on domestic services. Under the initiative, passengers are able to complete the entire airport throughput process using a single biometric identifier, in this case a facial recognition enabled identifier, including self service check in, self service baggage drop off, security screening and boarding.

NETWORK MAP (as at 17-Aug-2020)

GLOBAL RANKING (as at 17-Aug-2020)

DESTINATIONS (as at 17-Aug-2020)

ANNUAL CAPACITY (2012-2020*)NOTE:The values for this year are at least partly predictive up to 6 months and may be subject to change

WEEKLY DOMESTIC CAPACITY (2017 - 2020*)NOTE:*the values for this year are at least partly predictive up to six months and may be subject to change.

WEEKLY INTERNATIONAL CAPACITY (2017-2020*)NOTE:*the values for this year are at least partly predictive up to six months and may be subject to change.