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China’s Outbound Travel Recovery Has a New Problem: Not Enough Planes
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The biggest constraint on China’s outbound travel isn’t demand — it’s the availability of flights, according to a Dragon Trail Research survey of 310 Chinese travel agents to be released Wednesday.
More than three-quarters of agents said demand for outbound trips grew in the first half of 2026 compared with a year earlier.
After a diplomatic dispute in late 2025, China cancelled roughly half of all China-Japan flights.
Yet Japan came in second among the “most noteworthy” destinations for 2026, and third for summer bookings.
Flights between China and