On August 13, the Civil Aviation Administration of China held a regular press conference in Beijing. Wu Shijie, deputy director of the Aviation Safety Office of the Civil Aviation Administration, said that in July, a total of 370,000 flights of various types were guaranteed, with an average of 11,941 flights per day, a year-on-year decrease of 30.3. %, an increase of 10.4% month-on-month. The national flight regularity rate was 85.6%. The main factors affecting flight operations are weather. Affected by thunderstorms, there were 7,329 departure delays in all airports, and 277 return flights were alternate.
Talking about the resumption of international flights, Wu Shijie introduced that as of August 12, a total of 93 Chinese and foreign airlines (19 domestic and 74 foreign airlines) operate 187 scheduled international passenger routes, and perform 210 round-trip flights per week. Each country maintains regular passenger traffic. During the more severe period of the epidemic, regular passenger flights have been resumed with 20 countries.
Reporter Liu Chao reports from Beijing
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