China News Agency, Beijing, March 12 (Reporter Zhou Yin) On the 12th, a reporter learned from a press conference held by the Civil Aviation Administration of China that the Xinguan pneumonia epidemic had a huge impact on China's civil aviation transportation production. In February this year, the civil aviation industry completed a total transportation turnover of 2.52 billion ton-kilometres, a year-on-year decrease of 73.9%; the passenger transportation volume was 8.34 million, a year-on-year decrease of 84.5%; the cargo and mail transportation volume decreased by 21.0% year-on-year.
Xiong Jie, a spokesperson for the Civil Aviation Administration of China, disclosed here that in February, the civil aviation industry achieved 289,000 hours of transport aviation flights, a 70.5% year-on-year decrease. As of the end of February, China Transportation Aviation continued to fly safely for 114 months and 82.03 million hours. In February, the national flight normality rate was 97.2%, a year-on-year increase of 16.6 percentage points.
A few days ago, the Civil Aviation Administration issued the “Notice on Supporting Policies for Actively Coping with the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic”, which puts forward five measures including the implementation of active financial and economic policies, active promotion of fee reduction and burden reduction, increased infrastructure investment, promotion of air transport development, and optimization of government service work. In this regard, there are 16 policies and measures to promote the stable development of the civil aviation industry.
These mainly include the implementation of preferential policies such as civil aviation development funds that exempt airlines should pay; during the epidemic prevention and control period, the central government's policy to provide financial support for international scheduled passenger flights and the implementation of major transport flight missions in accordance with the joint control and prevention mechanism of the State Council. ; Make full use of the current subsidy policy to support general aviation companies performing epidemic prevention and control tasks.
In addition, it has actively promoted fee reduction and burden reduction, mainly including airport management agencies exempting aviation business charges and ground service charges deployed in accordance with the joint defense and joint control mechanism of the State Council to perform major transportation flight missions; reducing domestic, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions and foreign airline airports, air Regarding the charge standards, the base price of the take-off and landing charges for Class I and II airports will be reduced by 10%, parking fees will be waived, and the toll fees (except for overflight flights) will be reduced by 10%. Domestic airlines ’domestic kerosene purchase and sale spreads for domestic flights are reduced by 8%; information, bureau-owned enterprises, and other units are encouraged to appropriately reduce the current charging standards. (Finish)