China News Agency, Nanning, January 1 (Chen Qiuxia) The reporter learned from Guangxi Nanning Wuxu International Airport (referred to as Nanning Airport) on the 1st that in 2022, Nanning Airport has gradually resumed international passenger transport to ASEAN countries such as Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Phnom Penh, and Bangkok. The number of flights resumed to 11 per week.
Nanning Airport plans to gradually resume routes to capitals and key cities of ASEAN countries such as Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, and Manila on the basis of increasing the number of existing international passenger routes, and accelerate the restoration of Nanning's international passenger routes.
At the same time, focusing on the layout of the ASEAN route network, Nanning Airport has opened 7 new routes and increased 8 routes throughout the year. At present, it has opened more than 16 international cargo routes, and the routes reach Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, India and other ASEAN and South Asian countries have a capacity of 6 all-cargo aircraft stationed on site.
According to data provided by Nanning Airport, in 2022, Nanning Airport will guarantee a total of 66,000 flight movements; passenger throughput of 6.66 million; cargo and mail throughput of 152,000 tons, of which international cargo and mail throughput exceeded 70,000 tons.
Its passenger throughput ranks 27th among Chinese airports, an increase of one place compared to 2021; the growth rate of transportation and passenger throughput is higher than that of China's tens of millions of airports and the average level of national civil aviation.
In 2022, Nanning Airport will have 52 airlines participating in the operation of a total of 195 routes, including 176 domestic routes and 19 international regional routes; 121 navigable cities, including 103 domestic cities and 18 international regional cities; The airline has nearly 10 new aircraft on site, and the on-site capacity exceeds 50 aircraft in a single day.
Guangxi is the only province in China that is adjacent to the land and sea of ASEAN countries. It is a key node of the new land-sea corridor in the west and a gateway where land and sea meet.
In recent years, Guangxi has continuously improved the construction of transportation and logistics infrastructure, improved the level of land, sea and air connectivity, and accelerated the construction of an international channel facing ASEAN.
In October 2022, the Nanning International Airport Comprehensive Transportation Hub Project was completed and put into operation, filling the gap in Guangxi's "air-rail combined transport"; the Nanning Airport Reconstruction and Expansion Project (second runway) announced the full start of construction, which will help Nanning Airport become a gateway hub for ASEAN and International air cargo hub.
Nanning Airport stated that in 2023, the airport will focus on the "dual hub" construction of a gateway hub for ASEAN and an international air cargo hub, and build a route network with a more reasonable structure, wider coverage, more comprehensive services, and more convenient transit. Serving the travel needs of the public, helping Guangxi to accelerate its integration into the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and build an international channel facing ASEAN.
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