Originally Posted by
FlightDetent
As of 4 p.m. Beijing time, FR24 shows
70 aircraft airborne for Sichuan Airlines, fleet of 162
29 aircraft airborne for Capital Airlines, fleet of 87
32 flying for Loong Air out of 50 (that looks alright, actually)
55 / 96 from Spring Air (not there yet)
36 / 101 Shanghai Airlines (ouch)
The domestic operator I worked for has 26 planes running out of 85. Given the commuting rosters, ex-pat captains used to deliver around 15% of block-hours there. Hence until back to 85 % of the old schedule no need for any single one of us.
On top of all that in the interim, the fate of HNA conglomerate will have a significant impact. A major employer of foreign crews, imploding left, right, and centre already before the COVID started. How many were there, fourteen airlines inside the group?
These numbers from FR24 don't paint a good picture, for domestic operations you can expect about 40% of aircraft operating on one day on the ground at any one time, especially in China where ground delays due to airspace are common.
These figures are from yesterday and instead look at the number of aircraft which conducted at least one flight.
142/167 Sichuan Airlines
60/87 Capital Airlines
47/50 Loong Air
90 / 96 Spring Air
80 / 101 Shanghai Airlines
148/221 Hainan
181/189 Shenzhen Airlines, 5 of which are grounded 737maxs
Do note however that many widebodies 777/A350/A330 are only doing 1 return sector per day when they could easily be doing 2-3
I have found fleet lists @ https://www.planespotters.net/airline quite accurate with aircraft which don't fly for 2-3 days quickly moved to 'parked'