China News Service, Beijing, February 29 (Reporter Liu Wenwen) Dai Jun, deputy director of the Operation Monitoring Center of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, revealed in Beijing on the 29th that starting from March 31, Chinese and American airlines can operate a total of 100 scheduled passenger flights per week. flight.
Dai Jun introduced at the Civil Aviation Administration press conference held that day that China’s international scheduled passenger flights have steadily resumed since the Spring Festival. Among them, since the Spring Festival, from February 12 to 18, Chinese and foreign airlines have operated 5,389 international scheduled passenger flights (each (round trip is counted as 1 flight), returning to 70.7% before the epidemic, and flights involving countries involved in the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” accounted for 74.2%.
He further said that currently, scheduled international passenger flights operate in 64 countries, including 48 countries that are co-building the “Belt and Road”, accounting for 75%.
The flight volume of 22 countries including Singapore, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Italy, and New Zealand has exceeded the pre-epidemic level, and 5 new countries have been added to the list: Kuwait, Luxembourg, Tanzania, Serbia, and Papua New Guinea.
In terms of flights between China and the United States, starting from March 31, Chinese and American airlines can operate a total of 100 scheduled passenger flights per week.
He said that in the next step, the Civil Aviation Administration will continue to increase the supply of resources, further optimize the approval process, support Chinese and foreign airlines to increase capacity investment in a timely manner according to market demand, continue to ensure and monitor the implementation of airlines' international routes, and continue to promote international flights. Restore and better meet the needs of personnel exchanges.
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