BEIJING, May 8 (Xinhua) -- China's airplanes carried 3.05 million passengers during the seven-day May Day holiday, a rise of 10.5 percent from the previous year.

    The General Administration of Civil Aviation (CAAC) said on Monday that during the week-long break, a total of 27,573 flights were dispatched, up 11 percent on 2005.

    Latest statistics of CAAC published Monday showed that on April 30 alone, a record 530,000 people traveled by air planes. Enditem