Omicron and Chinese New Year Travel

How the Omicron variant will affect China’s New Year holiday travel that occurs from 24 January and 13 February 2022? A new report from ForwardKeys reveals that the recent lockdowns in China, imposed in response to outbreaks of the Omicron strain of Coronavirus have cast a long shadow over new year travel plans. The latest data, as of 11th January, shows flight bookings for the upcoming holiday period were 75.3% behind pre-pandemic levels but 5.9% ahead of last year's dismally low levels. In addition to Omicron-related travel restrictions, government advice on new year travel has also been an influential factor…