During this year's Spring Festival, civil aviation passenger traffic is expected to reach 80 million, which is expected to hit a record high. Thousands of routes, with an average of more than 170,000 flights shuttled through the air.
Today, the reporter will take you to experience several "firsts" of traveling by plane during this year's Spring Festival.
In this year's Spring Festival, 4 C919 domestic large aircraft served the Spring Festival for the first time, flying on the Beijing-Shanghai and Shanghai-Chengdu routes.
At 10 o'clock in the evening, on the workbench of Zhang Tinglei, the duty dispatcher of the C919 domestic large aircraft, multiple display screens are constantly updating information, participating in the Spring Festival for the first time, and the core data such as meteorology, fuel, and routes that are closely related to the safe flight of the crew are "running" at an acceleration.
Zhang Tinglei, flight dispatcher of China Eastern Airlines: Safety is our first requirement. Dispatchers are also called "ground pilots", and we are involved in the development and application of flight plans for every flight, including C919 large aircraft.
The first flight of the first flight of the domestic large aircraft in the Spring Festival was from Shanghai to Chengdu. Shanghai blue sky**, cloudless, high visibility, is a good weather for flying.
Tourist Cheng Jiankai: I'm so excited, it's the first time I've taken the C919, because this is an aircraft developed by ourselves, and its streamlined structure, as well as the landing gear and engine, are really beautiful.
Many passengers are taking a large domestic plane for the first time, and they find that some of the designs are quite practical: there is a neck brace on the back of the chair, and there is a charging socket under the seat. The reporter found that many people chose the middle seat with a low sales rate in the past.
Zhang Wenjing, Chief Purser of China Eastern Airlines C919 Passenger Aircraft: One of our very special points is the triple row of seats in economy class, which is a little wider than the middle seat of other aircraft, 15 cm.
While the details enhance the travel experience, the food on the domestic large aircraft also has new ideas.
CCTV reporter Jiang Shulin: First of all, the red bean-flavored milk of this white rabbit, this is the first time I have seen such a flavor. There is also this osmanthus strip cake, which is produced by a time-honored brand in Shanghai. It can be said that this small plate has moved Shanghai's local specialties to the C919 plane.
After a three-and-a-half-hour flight, the C919 landed smoothly at Chengdu Tianfu International Airport. The reporter learned that with the delivery of C919 to airlines one after another, in the future Spring Festival, domestic large aircraft will continue to be launched, and the routes will be more abundant.
In the same blue sky, there are also "new faces" serving the Spring Festival. This year, China Southern Airlines Group has 22 foreign flight attendants serving the Spring Festival for the first time.
Cheng Mei Jun and Huang Peiyi from Malaysia are participating in the Spring Festival for the first time, and in the face of the surging passenger flow than usual, they agreed on a small goal: they can say they can do it, and do a good job of service before passengers speak. The reporter noticed that they took out a small note from time to time to look at it during the service gap.
Malaysian flight attendant Zheng Meijun of China Southern Airlines Group: There was a passenger sitting in row 36K, and the luggage couldn't fit in the back, so I moved it to the front for him, and I was worried that I would forget, so I wrote it down as soon as I put it down.
Huang Peiyi, Malaysian flight attendant of China Southern Airlines Group: Now that it is the period of the Spring Festival, when we received the information box, we specially asked if we could give us two more packs, and try to ensure that every sleeping passenger has such a small paper sticker in front of them.
From Guangzhou to Dalian, the whole journey takes more than 3 hours, which is a longer time in domestic flights, and catches up with the Spring Festival, with a large passenger flow. Zheng Meijun and Huang Peiyi, under the coordination of the purser, have both cooperation and division of labor.
Reporter: How do you feel?
Malaysian flight attendant Zheng Meijun of China Southern Airlines Group: Tired, I haven't seen the sun yet.
Reporter: Is this the norm?
Malaysian flight attendant Zheng Meijun of China Southern Airlines Group: It is the norm, and it is indeed the case after entering the Spring Festival, and we have made a lot of preparations from the perspective that passengers do not know. When the travelers came up, we were already sweating profusely.
In the crew operation center of China Southern Airlines, the reporter saw this year's Spring Festival travel schedule, which showed that foreign flight attendants would fly many international flights in addition to participating in domestic flights during the Spring Festival.
Li Yimin, Malaysian flight attendant of China Southern Airlines Group: The domestic and international (flight) geographical areas are relatively large, so in our dormitory, we will prepare two boxes of different sizes, one is ready to fly short and medium distances, and the other is ready to fly long routes. So no matter which route you fly, we can quickly prepare the clothes you need.
Liang Xiang, Manager of Cabin Department 8 of China Southern Airlines Group: Our 22 foreign flight attendants are from Malaysia, Japan and South Korea, and they also have a tradition of celebrating the Spring Festival in their countries, but they choose to stay at their posts. They are not only the new faces of our Spring Festival, but also the new force to guarantee services.