China News Service, May 13 (Xinhua) The Civil Aviation Administration of China held a press conference on the 13th to introduce the state of civil aviation safety production and operation in April this year. It was revealed at the meeting that in April, the whole industry completed 422,000 hours of transport aviation flights; no transport aviation accidents occurred, and the industry's safety production continued to maintain a stable trend. As of the end of April, national transportation aviation continued to fly safely for 116 months and 82.87 million hours.
Data Map: Check-in hall of Daxing Airport. China News Service reporter Du Yangshe
In terms of production and operation, in April, the year-on-year decline in the main production indicators of civil aviation narrowed from the previous month. Among them, the total transportation turnover was 3.95 billion tons kilometers, a decrease of 62.4% year-on-year, a decrease of 1.0 percentage points from the previous month; the passenger transportation volume was 16.715 million passengers, a decrease of 68.5% year-on-year, and the decrease rate was 3.2 percentage points from the previous month; The completed cargo and mail transportation volume was 484,000 tons, a year-on-year decrease of 19.4%, a decrease of 3.9 percentage points from the previous month. The freight volume of all cargo aircraft continued to maintain rapid growth, with a total of 237,000 tons, a year-on-year increase of 31.1%.
In terms of operational support, a total of 208,700 flights of various types were guaranteed in April, with an average of 6958 flights per day, a daily average decrease of 56.9% year-on-year, and an average daily increase of 6.47% month-on-month. The national flight regularity rate is 97.63%.