On the first day of the implementation of “Class B and B Management”, the first inbound flight flew from Phnom Penh to Chengdu Photo by Lu Guoying
On January 7, the Spring Festival travel season was officially opened; on January 8, the latest epidemic prevention and control policies as “B and B class management” were officially implemented. The good news of the past few days has accelerated the resumption of flights in Chengdu.
Yesterday, a reporter from the Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News learned from Chengdu Shuangliu Airport that the passenger flow of civil aviation is expected to increase significantly during this year’s Spring Festival travel. Many airlines are actively adjusting their flight plans through new openings and encryption to meet the different travel needs of passengers.
On January 8, there were more than 2,500 passengers in and out of Chengdu, and 36 inbound and outbound flights. According to the latest data, the number of international (regional) passenger routes in Chengdu has returned to 24, ranking fourth in the country and first in the Midwest.
Data show that in 2022, Chengdu Airport’s passenger traffic will rank first among cities in the country. In 2023, Chengdu will consolidate and strengthen Chengdu’s status as an international gateway hub. According to the needs of foreign economic and trade cooperation and business exchanges, it will accelerate the recovery of important trade routes to Los Angeles in North America, Paris in Europe , and Melbourne in Oceania. The course has resumed.
During the Spring Festival travel season, many airlines will open popular routes
According to Feichangzhun APP data, on the first day of the Spring Festival travel season, the number of domestic passenger flights at the two airports in Chengdu exceeded 1,000, an increase of 85% compared to the first day of the travel season. Spring Festival travel before the epidemic in 2019. daily flight volume.
The reporter learned that the peak departure is expected to occur from January 17 to 19, and the average number of daily outbound passengers will exceed 39,000; It will exceed 39,000 person-hours and the peak hour of the daily inbound and outbound passenger flow will be two time slots 7:00-10:00 and 19:00-20:00 every day. The five destination airports expected to have the most inbound and outbound flights are: Chengdu Shuangliu-Beijing Capital, Chengdu Shuangliu-Guangzhou Baiyun, Chengdu Shuangliu-Shenzhen Baoan, Chengdu Shuangliu-Hangzhou Xiaoshan, Chengdu Shuangliu-Beijing Daxing.
Shuangliu Airport said that according to preliminary forecasts, during this year’s Spring Festival travel season, Shuangliu Airport is expected to perform about 21,200 flights, with an average daily guarantee of about 530 flights; it is expected to complete a passenger flow of 2.88 million people -times, and the average daily passenger flow will exceed 72,000 people at a time, the peak single-day passenger flow will be close to 79,000.
Chengdu Tianfu International Airport caters to the diverse needs of homecoming and traveling passengers through measures such as coordinating with airlines to roll out capacity, adjust aircraft types, and arrange additional flights. To make it easier for citizens to go back and forth at night, Tianfu Airport will also cooperate with the Chengdu Municipal Transportation Bureau to open two new airport bus lines at night.
Not only that, major airlines are also actively adapting to Spring Festival travel. Inbound and outbound flights arranged by various airlines at Shuangliu Airport are mainly concentrated on popular domestic routes and tourist routes such as Sanya, Shenzhen and Hangzhou, as well as international and regional routes such as Bangkok and Singapore.
Implementation of the “Class B pipeline”
The number of staff and inbound and outbound flights has increased significantly
As of January 8, according to the latest epidemic prevention and control policies such as “Class B and Class B”, the national entry and exit policies have been officially updated. At 10:09 on the 8th, international flight CA437 from Chengdu Shuangliu to Kathmandu officially took off, the first flight to depart from Chengdu port after the implementation of the policy.
It is understood that on January 8, Shuangliu Airport implemented 17 inbound and outbound international (regional) passenger flights, including 9 inbound passenger flights, including Phnom Penh, Addis Ababa, Kathmandu, Astana and Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, Macao and other places 8 outbound passenger flights, including direct flights from Chengdu to Kathmandu, Astana, Phnom Penh and Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, Macao and other places. According to relevant statistics, there were more than 2,500 inbound and outbound passengers and 36 inbound and outbound flights that day.
The Chengdu Entry-Exit Border Inspection Station streamlined the customs clearance inspection procedures, canceled the filling of the “Chinese Citizen Entry Information Declaration Card”, and no longer collected relevant information on epidemic prevention such as the area where the inbound personnel went, which greatly shortened the customs clearance time for ordinary passengers, and the efficiency of customs clearance is relatively low. The relevant policies and measures will increase by about 50% before the ‘announcement. Xu Tao, director of the border inspection department at the Sichuan General Border Inspection Station, said, “We must ensure that the waiting time at the entry border inspection does not exceed 30 minutes.”
For Chengdu Air Port, this is a new beginning, as Xu Tao said, “This is a good sign.”
Consolidate and enhance international gateway hub status
Promote the resumption of major international business and cultural travel itineraries
Up to now, according to the latest data, the number of international (regional) passenger routes in Chengdu has returned to 24, ranking fourth in the country and first in the Midwest. In 2023, Chengdu will consolidate and strengthen Chengdu’s status as an international gateway hub, and according to the needs of enterprises for foreign economic and trade cooperation and exchange, accelerate the recovery of important trade routes to Los Angeles in North America, Paris in Europe, Melbourne in Oceania, etc., and promote international cultural tourism in due course.
Specifically, currently, Shuangliu Airport has successively resumed, increased and increased the number of international (regional) passenger routes from Chengdu to Cairo, Almaty, Hong Kong, Helsinki, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Rome and Seoul. More than 70 inbound flights are scheduled each week. The airport and the airline are actively linking up to promote the recovery and encryption of international (regional) passenger routes. Among them, Sichuan Airlines operates a total of 10 international (regional) routes, with destinations including Cairo, Vancouver, Bangkok, Dubai, etc., and will resume the Chengdu-Phuket route on January 20 and the Chengdu-Istanbul route on the 9th. February , At that time, Sichuan Airlines will have 12 international (regional) routes every week. Air China currently operates 5 international routes in Chengdu, including Chengdu-Singapore, Chengdu-Frankfurt, Chengdu-Kathmandu, etc., as well as the Chengdu-Hong Kong regional route. Air China will also use Airbus A321 to fly from Chengdu to Taipei . In addition, Spring Airlines and Loong Air will resume several international routes departing from Chengdu.
In terms of air cargo routes. In 2022, Chengdu will open and increase the number of all-cargo or passenger-cargo routes to Liege, Prague, Istanbul, Brussels, Paris, London and other cities, and open the passenger-cargo route from Chengdu to Sao Paulo, South America for the first time (stopping in Madrid) There are currently 29 international cargo routes. It is reported that this number will increase, effectively solving the air transportation needs of enterprises in Chengdu, Sichuan and surrounding areas for cross-border logistics.
Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter Ye Yanxuting
