China's June air passenger numbers fall 42.4% year-on-year - aviation regulator

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's aviation regulator said on Friday that passenger numbers fell 42.4% in June from a year earlier.

That compared with a year-on-year decline of 52.6% in May.

Passenger numbers fell 45.8% from a year earlier in the first half of this year, the regulator said.

(Reporting by Stella Qiu and Ryan Woo; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)