China News Service, Beijing, September 15 (Reporter Zhou Yin) Zhang Qing, deputy director of the Development Planning Department of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, disclosed at a press conference held by the Civil Aviation Administration of China on the 15th that China's civil aviation is recovering steadily.

In August this year, civil aviation completed a total of 45.53 million passengers, nearly three-quarters of the same period last year. The year-on-year growth rate was 58.9% higher than that in February. Among them, the domestic air passenger completed 45.351 million passengers, which has recovered to more than 80% in the same period last year. , Is the highest value of the monthly domestic passenger transportation scale this year.

  In August, the civil aviation industry completed a total transportation turnover of 7.54 billion ton-kilometers, which was restored to 65.4% in the same period last year. The year-on-year growth rate was 39.3 percentage points higher than that in February.

  Zhang Qing said that due to the continuous spread of the new crown pneumonia overseas, the scale of passenger transportation on international routes continues to be at a low level.

In August, passenger transportation volume was 189,000, a year-on-year decrease of 97.3%, and the average daily transportation was about 6,000.

  In terms of freight, in August this year, the entire industry completed a total of 546,000 tons of cargo and mail transportation, which was restored to 86.7% of the same period last year. Among them, domestic and international routes were restored to 86.2% and 87.8% of the same period last year.

In terms of freight mode, cargo and mail transportation volume completed by all-cargo aircraft continued to maintain a relatively rapid growth year-on-year. This month, the volume of cargo and mail transportation completed by all-cargo aircraft was 220,000 tons, an increase of 20.1% over the same period last year.

  The reporter learned from the press conference that as of the end of August this year, China Transport Airlines had continued to fly safely for 120 months with 85.8 million hours.

In August, a total of 413,000 flights of various types were guaranteed, with an average of 13,334 flights per day, an increase of 11.7% from the previous month; the national flight regularity rate was 78.1%, an increase of 1.6% year-on-year.

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