The conference site. Picture from China Civil Aviation Network
China News Service Client Beijing, May 13 (Zhang Xu) reporter learned from a press conference held by the Civil Aviation Administration on the 13th that civil aviation completed passenger transport volume of 16.715 million passengers in April, a year-on-year decrease of 68.5%, a decrease from the previous month Narrowed by 3.2 percentage points.
Xiong Jie, a spokesman for the Civil Aviation Administration and director of the Aviation Security Office, said that in terms of safe operation, the industry completed 422,000 hours of transport aviation flights in April; no transport aviation accidents occurred, and industry 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.
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 narrower than 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%.
Xiong Jie said that as China's epidemic prevention and control work shifted from emergency to normalization, the entire civil aviation industry insisted on doing a good job in normal epidemic prevention and control. Organized the publicity and education of "awe of life, awe of regulations, awe of responsibilities" and the safety rectification activities of "grasping style, strengthening the three bases, and keeping the bottom line", further strengthened the safety education of personnel in key positions, promoted the implementation of safety responsibilities, and enhanced risk prevention Awareness has promoted employees to do safe production work in accordance with laws and regulations, ensured the safe and stable operation of the industry, and created a good safety environment for epidemic prevention and control, resumption of production and economic and social development. (Finish)