By Alfred Chua2020-12-16T07:20:00+00:00 After consecutive months of steady recovery, China’s three largest carriers reported their first domestic traffic slump in November — the first in more than half a year, with at least one carrier blaming a resurgence in domestic coronavirus cases for the decline. The ‘Big Three’ — comprising Air China, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines — all saw domestic passenger numbers and capacity shrink month on month, with some falling below pre-pandemic numbers. Source: Wikimedia Commons China’s three largest airlines saw declines in November domestic passenger traffic. Though it claims to have kept the pandemic under control, China has in recent weeks seen a slight uptick in cases, the bulk of them imported cases, though there have been instances of locally-transmitted cases in a number of provinces.