China News Service, Beijing, April 2 (Reporter Zhou Yin) The second inspector Jin Junhao of the Transportation Division of the Civil Aviation Administration of China disclosed at a press conference held by the Civil Aviation Administration on the 2nd. In order to further enhance China's international air cargo capacity, China Civil Aviation The Bureau is committed to promoting 6 measures:
The first is to continue to reduce the cost of international air cargo. The Civil Aviation Administration of China has issued 16 policy measures in five aspects, including exemption from the Civil Aviation Development Fund, reducing airport charges, air traffic control charges, and aviation kerosene purchase and sales spreads, and actively promoting cost reductions and burden reductions; arranging funds for major special transportation tasks Subsidies for cargo flights and charter flights.
The second is to simplify approval of cargo routes and flights. Opening the international flight information system, realizing 7X24-hour real-time online approval of cargo flight applications by Chinese and foreign airlines, while improving efficiency, further improving the service quality to enterprises. In March, a total of 528 overtime charter flights were approved, which was 4.47 times the same period last year, and was close to 1/4 of the total overtime charter flights in 2019.
The third is to encourage passenger airlines to use passenger aircraft to carry out all-cargo flights to make up for the current lack of capacity of all-cargo aircraft. During the epidemic prevention and control period, the number of air passenger flights decreased drastically, and the belly cargo of passenger planes dropped significantly. Against this background, the exemption of airlines' right of operation, time of flight, and advance flight plan approval was adopted to support airlines in The capacity of idle passenger flights is used to enhance international cargo capacity.
The fourth is to adopt the form of "point-to-point" freight charter to solve the problem of insufficient accessibility after passenger "reduction".
Fifth, strengthen the "transportation and trade docking" and actively work with the Ministry of Commerce to establish a precise supply and demand docking mechanism between foreign trade foreign-funded enterprises and air transport enterprises. In accordance with the principle of "government building platform and business commercialization cooperation", a special notice was issued on March 27, requesting domestic airline companies to formulate a work plan, set up a special team, designate a special person to dock, and solve the problem of asymmetric information, supply and demand mismatch, and make every effort. Do a good job of "stabilizing foreign trade" and "stabilizing foreign investment".
Sixth, in response to transportation needs of strategic importance, the Civil Aviation Administration promptly launched a major air transport guarantee mechanism, in the form of opening temporary flights or charter flights, and focused on preventing the risk of "broken chains" in the supply chain.
Jin Jun claims that the above measures have begun to bear fruit. The number of international cargo flights in China this week has reached 1,195, which has exceeded 1,014 before the outbreak, an increase of 17.85% over the number before the outbreak. (Finish)