China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited provided revenue guidance for the year 2023. For the year, the company expects the net loss attributable to shareholders to be RMB 6.8 billion to RMB 8.3 billion. In the year 2023, the global economy experienced a slow and unbalanced growth and showed a widening differentiation trend.

The World Economic Outlook report released by the International Monetary Fund in November 2023 predicted that the global economic growth would slow down from 3.5% in 2022 to 3% in 2023. Despite the increasing uncertainties for the global economy, the global aviation industry has been recovering gradually and the air passenger traffic volume has basically returned to the level in 2019. 2023 was a year for the economy to resume development after three years of COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control, and in the year, the domestic economy was recovering well and the domestic civil aviation passenger transportation market was showing a steady recovery trend.

However, the international passenger transportation market is still struggling with many challenges. Adhering to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, the Company strived to seize the opportunity of industry recovery by increasing transportation capacity deployment, intensifying the linkage of marketing, service and operation, and strengthening cost control. As a result, the Company managed to resume production and operation, recording a total traffic volume of 18.522 billion tonne-kilometres and a passenger traffic volume of 116 million passengers, representing a year-on-year increase of 130.79% and 172.03%, respectively.

Due to the factors such as restrictions on traffic rights, visa policies, lack of supporting resources of some routes, the overall international routes recovered slower than expected; some wide body jet-liners turned to be used for domestic flights, leading to an increase in the transportation capacity in the domestic market; coupled with other factors including weak travel demands of business passengers and exchange rate fluctuations, it is expected that the Company's operating results for the year 2023 will improve significantly as compared with the year 2022, but will still record a loss.