Hohhot airport bustles over Dragon Boat holiday

Hohhot Baita International Airport handled 98,683 passengers from 881 flights during this year's Dragon Boat Festival holiday, an increase of 31 percent and 15.6 percent compared with the same period last year.

On average, 294 flights took off or landed at Hohhot airport each day during the holiday period –– which took place from June 16 -18, with a daily average of 32,894 passengers passing through the airport. The airport was busiest on June 16 with 317 planes departing and arriving, and 37,119 passengers using the airport.

Cargo throughput at the airport during the holiday was 293.7 tons, an increase of 4.2 percent year on year.

Hohhot airport successfully completed security checks on all passengers and flights that operated over the holiday period.