China News Service, April 27th, 27th, the State Council's Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism held a press conference on the latest situation regarding the importation of foreign epidemic prevention and control according to law. According to Han Guangzu, deputy director of the Flight Standards Department of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, this week, in accordance with the unified deployment of the joint defense and joint control mechanism of the State Council, the Civil Aviation Administration, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Health and Health Commission, plans to arrange 5 temporary flights to the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy And Spain, it is expected to take back 900 Chinese citizens.
Han Guangzu revealed that the Civil Aviation Administration issued the "Notice on Continued Reduction of International Passenger Traffic During Epidemic Prevention and Control", requesting that the number of international passenger flights be further reduced from March 29, the "five one" policy. As of April 26, 17 domestic airlines including Air China, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines, and 24 foreign airlines including Korean Air, All Nippon Airways and Ethiopian Airlines, etc. have respectively carried out international flights from 36 countries including Japan, South Korea, the United States and Canada There were 417 passenger and temporary flights carrying 82,640 inbound passengers. Except for the arrival of 38 flights on March 29, there were no more than 20 subsequent daily inbound flights, with approximately 3,000 inbound passengers per day.
Han Guangzu said that last week (April 20-26), civil aviation arranged a total of 4 temporary flights to assist a total of 854 Chinese citizens in the United States, Britain and Italy to return home, including 711 international students. In accordance with the unified deployment of the joint defense and joint control mechanism of the State Council this week, the Civil Aviation Administration, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Health and Health Commission, plans to arrange five temporary flights to the United States, Britain, Italy and Spain, and is expected to receive 900 Chinese citizens. Among them, mainly foreign students.
Han Guangzu pointed out that in accordance with the general requirements of the central government to strengthen the care and concern for overseas Chinese citizens, it strictly implemented the unified deployment of the joint defense and joint control mechanism of the State Council, and launched major air transportation guarantees in cities with concentrated demand and flight destinations with receiving support capabilities. Mechanism to arrange temporary flights to some countries with severe epidemics, and assist our citizens who have difficulties in returning home. These temporary flights are specially opened, temporary, additional flights, and the "five one" policy is mainly to curb the high incidence of overseas epidemic import risks. The restrictions imposed on regular international passenger flights have been added to these temporary flights. Flights, does not affect the number of existing scheduled international passenger flights.