China News Agency, March 9. The CAAC issued a notice on its official website on the support policies for actively responding to the new crown pneumonia epidemic. The notice stated that domestic, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions and foreign airline airports and air traffic control fees were lowered. The standard price for the take-off and landing charges of Class I and II airports is reduced by 10%, and parking fees are waived; the toll fee (except for overflight flights) is reduced by 10%. The domestic kerosene purchase and sales spread of domestic airlines reduced the benchmark price by 8%.

Data sheet: The plane is taxiing. Photo by Qu Honglun of China News Agency

The notice states that the above fee reduction policy will be implemented from January 23, 2020, and the deadline will be further notified according to the epidemic situation.

The notice stated that it is necessary to actively promote fee reduction and burden reduction. The airport management agency is exempt from the aeronautical business charges and ground service charges that are deployed in accordance with the joint defense and joint control mechanism of the State Council to perform major transport flight missions, and the air traffic control unit is exempt from approach command fees and airway fees. Encourage information, bureau-owned enterprises and institutions to appropriately reduce the current charging standards.

The notice also said that investment in infrastructure will be increased.

——Every airport management agency, related operation support unit and civil aviation medical research unit urgently purchases or develops special fixed assets facilities and equipment to respond to the epidemic can apply for civil aviation development fund subsidies, which are specifically approved by the civil aviation bureau or regional bureaus after approval Application.

——Support the scientific and orderly start and resumption of major construction projects. Accepting project applications online, accelerating the project's preliminary work, coordinating and resolving the key and difficult issues of restarting construction, supporting major and urgent construction projects to use the opened trading center to accelerate project bidding. We will speed up the construction of a number of key infrastructure projects such as the newly-opened resumption hub airport, poverty alleviation, and the defense of the blue sky, and strive to complete 100 billion yuan in fixed asset investment throughout the year.

——Implement the current Civil Aviation Development Fund policy to better support airlines in improving their safety capabilities. Increase investment in airline safety, security, flight quality monitoring, satellite navigation and other new technology applications. Support the safe upgrade and modification of airborne equipment of airlines, and fully arrange civil aviation development funds for the construction of B737NG aircraft data frame expansion projects.

——Support the planning and construction of strategic infrastructures related to national, industrial and public interests such as air traffic control, information, and fuel supply, and increase government funding support.

In addition, notifications are required to promote the development of air transport.

——Implement a flexible capacity introduction policy, support and guide airlines in optimizing capacity, and simplify capacity introduction procedures.

——Optimize the management of airline flight licenses, support airlines to flexibly adjust flight plans, international route structure and rights quotas according to market demand, simplify route flight approval procedures, time coordination procedures, etc., and shorten the time limit for the approval (reinstatement) of international routes.

——The implementation of the flight schedule for the 2019 winter season will be postponed until May 2, and the suspension of the evaluation of the airline's flight plan execution rate, time execution rate and flight normality rate will be suspended. Actively promulgated the season change flight schedule policy to meet the needs of airlines to resume production, and waived the assessment of domestic flight schedule execution rate in the summer season of 2020. Domestic summer time, 2020 domestic, international and regional time pools, and flight schedules in the pool, according to the market Demand changes flow in an orderly manner.

—— Actively support and assist airlines in actively communicating and coordinating with relevant national civil aviation authorities on the special operational requirements during the epidemic period and the issues of air rights and time encountered during the restoration of international routes.

The notice also stated that government service work should be optimized.

——Adjust the administrative examination and approval methods, adopt online and off-site procedures, optimize the examination and approval process, implement the notification and commitment system, and improve examination and approval efficiency.

——Transform supervision methods, improve supervision effectiveness, reduce on-site supervision methods, and make full use of new supervision methods such as off-site supervision.

The notice stated that the civil aviation regional administrations should strengthen supervision and inspection to ensure the implementation of the above policies and measures. Airlines should strengthen their main responsibilities, strengthen internal management, open source, reduce expenditures, tap potential and increase efficiency to ensure the safe and stable operation of the industry. All guarantee units should improve their standing and serve the overall situation to provide guarantee for the safe and stable operation of the industry.