Hong Kong Stock Market Movement | Airline Stocks Decline China Southern Airlines Falls Over 5% Multiple Flight Routes Offer Cheap Tickets After the Spring Festival

Hong Kong stock airline shares collectively declined, with China Southern Airlines falling over 5%, Air China and China Eastern Airlines dropping over 4%, and Meilan Airport decreasing nearly 2%.

According to reports, as the Year of the Horse Spring Festival holiday ends in 2026, the civil aviation market also enters the traditional off-peak season. In stark contrast to the “tickets hard to get” scene during the Spring Festival, many popular domestic flight routes have seen significant “price drops,” with some tickets costing less than 10% of their original price. Multiple travel platforms have reported that after the peak passenger flow on February 23 (the seventh day of the Lunar New Year), domestic flight ticket prices have begun to fall sharply. It is expected that by March 13, the average ticket price will reach its lowest point, with an overall decline of over 50%. From now until the end of March, off-peak travel tickets will continue to remain low.

Some analysts say that just after the Spring Festival, “bargain” tickets like 300 yuan from Beijing to Sanya are flying all over the sky, which is indeed a typical post-holiday phenomenon in the civil aviation market. The impact on airline stocks should be viewed from two levels: in the short term, as a “small disturbance” in sentiment, but in the medium to long term, it actually reinforces the industry’s optimistic “big logic.” (Gelonghui)