At 0:06 on March 29, Hubei Province, except Wuhan, resumed domestic passenger flights and the first passenger airliner to take off from Hubei. Photo by Huang Yuyang of China News Agency

Chinanews Client Beijing, April 2 (Zhang Xu) In March, the average daily number of flights guaranteed by civil aviation was 6,533, an increase of 20.5% month-on-month, and it recovered to about 42% before the outbreak. Regions where workers are relatively concentrated, such as Northwest China, and regions where labor demand is relatively concentrated, such as the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta.

On April 2, Jin Junhao, the second inspector of the Transportation Department of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, disclosed the above data at a press conference organized by the Civil Aviation Administration.

According to Jin Junhao, with the effective control of the domestic epidemic, the resumption of work and production in various places has been promoted in an orderly manner. In order to better meet the needs of returning passenger flow, the Civil Aviation Administration has opened a green approval channel for resumption of charter flights to ensure that charter flights can be applied at any time and approved to take off in a timely manner.

In addition, domestic passenger flights have been resumed at all airports in Hubei Province except Wuhan Airport since March 29. As of 24:00 on April 1st, the resumption of 312 flights in and out of the port has been guaranteed in the four days since the resumption of flights, with 21,075 passengers, which strongly supports the resumption of production and work in Hubei.

Jin Junhao said that in order to prevent and control the epidemic on the way back, local governments or large enterprises in labor exporting or importing places will organize concentrated travel of migrant workers. In response to these needs, various airlines have increased the return of custom-made charter flights for migrant workers, and announced business contact numbers to the society or arranged personnel to actively connect with local governments.

Through the efforts of the civil aviation industry, as of April 1, each airline has specially arranged more than 970 resumed and resumed flights on the basis of the existing scheduled flights, guaranteeing more than 59,000 resumed and resumed personnel trips.

Jin Jun claimed that, in the next step, the Civil Aviation Administration will continue to guide and encourage airlines to strengthen ties with local governments and major labor companies, and reasonably organize and arrange capacity to meet the transportation needs of workers who resume production.

In addition, according to Ma Bing, director of the Operation Monitoring Center of the Civil Aviation Administration, according to the unified deployment of the national joint defense and control mechanism, the Civil Aviation Administration has introduced measures to further reduce the number of international passenger flights. One route is reserved, with up to one flight per week, and it will be implemented on March 29th of the civil aviation summer and autumn season.

"After the adjustment, a total of 108 international passenger flights are scheduled to enter Hong Kong in the first week, of which 18 domestic companies plan to implement 88 flights, and 20 foreign airlines from 12 countries plan to implement 20 flights. The countries with the most concentrated inbound flights are Thailand 12 Class, 10 classes in Cambodia, 9 classes in Japan. "(End)