China: Guangzhou airport was the busiest in the world in 2020
Guangzhou-Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou became the busiest airport in terms of passengers in 2020 © Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 Jacky Cheung
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In this context of health crisis, planes are struggling to take off, especially given border restrictions.
A upheaval in the aviation sector which means that, for the first time, a Chinese airport is at the top of the most frequented tarmacs in 2020.
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With our correspondent in Beijing
,
Stéphane Lagarde
With 43.7 million passengers in 2020, the Guangzhou-Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou has taken the first place from Atlanta in terms of passenger volume.
It also exceeds that of Beijing which in the latest rankings came just behind the American airport, as well as that of Shanghai.
But why Canton?
The reason is quite simple: the Chinese capital has long been closed to foreign planes during the health crisis, and arrivals in Shanghai are also filtered.
For the Chine Nouvelle agency, this first place illustrates the “
remarkable results obtained by the country in epidemic prevention and control
”.
The Chinese economy restarted last spring, as did air traffic.
The sector has come a long way
In May 2020, would have thought, the
tarmac of Chengdu Shuangliu
, the airport of the capital of Sichuan Province in the
'
western China recording the highest number of landings and takeoffs in the world.
The official agency does not hide the fact that the sector has come a long way.
In February 2020, the runways at Guangzhou-Baiyun Airport in Canton were like other "
frozen
" due to the epidemic.
At the same time, the Shanghai authorities are announcing that a first single-aisle aircraft
made in China
, the C919 will be delivered later this year.
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