(New Year Goes to the Grassroots) Zhengzhou Airport enters return peak season with 646 passenger flights a day, breaking record

The picture shows the "elephant" guide in the airport attracting children to stop. Photo courtesy of Zhengzhou Airport

　　China News Service, Zhengzhou, February 17 (Li Chaoqing, Jiang Hui, Wang Pengzhen) Reporters learned from Henan Airport Group on the 16th that starting from February 15, Zhengzhou Airport has entered the peak return period of the Spring Festival in 2024, with the average daily flights remaining at a high of 640. 90% of these are passenger flights. All units at the airport go all out to ensure that every flight takes off and lands safely and quickly.

　　Data shows that the number of flights on the 15th was 643, including 635 passenger aircraft. On the 16th, 655 flights were planned, including 646 passenger aircraft. Such a number of passenger flights in one day broke the highest record of Zhengzhou Airport in the past years.

　　During the Spring Festival, in order to ensure the safe takeoff and landing of aircraft, a group of Zhengzhou Airport staff stayed at their posts and paid close attention to all guarantee links.

　　In the flight area management department of Zhengzhou Airport, ground attendant Wang Zeli took the initiative to give up the time to reunite with his family and continued to work at his job. He increased the inspection, inspection and maintenance of the two runways, taxiways, aprons and other areas of Zhengzhou Airport, and cleaned the road surfaces cumulatively. About 15,000 square meters, ensuring that the road surface is in good condition; Inspector Chen Peisen stayed at his post for 4 consecutive days, carried out more than 20 clearance inspections, and promptly handled unsafe incidents such as fires, smoke, flying balloons, and kites in the core flight area of ​​Zhengzhou Airport. 5 cases, ensuring the clearance safety of Zhengzhou Airport and ensuring the safe travel of passengers.

The picture shows passengers queuing up to check in in an orderly manner. Photo courtesy of Zhengzhou Airport

　　"This year's Spring Festival holiday, there are more parents, the elderly, and passengers with reduced mobility traveling with babies." The relevant person in charge of Zhengzhou Airport said that with the arrival of the return peak, Zhengzhou Airport has launched "expedited" services in response to the late arrival of some passengers. "Model", the check-in counters D25 to D28 at the check-in island of Terminal 2 of Zhengzhou Airport will be added as expedited "green channels".

　　Security screening is an important security measure at an airport. In the past two days, the number of passengers departing from Zhengzhou Airport has been rising steadily. On the 16th, the seventh day of the first lunar month, the number of people passing through security inspection reached a new high during the peak hours of morning flights, reaching 3,600 people per hour. In order to allow every passenger to pass the security check safely and quickly, the Zhengzhou Airport Security Checkpoint made overall arrangements, opened all security checkpoints in advance, and organized backup personnel to open 5 additional emergency passages in a timely manner, ensuring that passengers can pass the checkpoints smoothly.

　　Chang Quanling, director of the Zhengzhou Airport Security Checkpoint, said that usually about 3,000 children pass through the security checkpoint at Zhengzhou Airport every day. After the return peak began, the number doubled compared to before the holiday. On the 15th, there were nearly 7,000 children at the Zhengzhou Airport Security Checkpoint in one day. Go through security.

　　At about 11 a.m. on the 16th, in the security check hall of Zhengzhou Airport, all security check channels were in order, and the No. 18 love channel was even busier. "Because this channel is mainly responsible for the safety inspection of elderly and child passengers, it requires special care." Wei Qi, the security inspector in charge of this channel, reminded, "In the past two days, more than 60 cases of fireworks and firecrackers were seized at the Zhengzhou Airport Security Checkpoint every day. , many of which are carried by children. According to the regulations of the Civil Aviation Administration, it is strictly prohibited to carry or check in fireworks and firecrackers. Parents are asked to remind their children not to carry fireworks and firecrackers with them when taking airplanes or high-speed rail, so as not to affect the itinerary." (End)