Economic Observer Network NewsThe Civil Aviation Administration of China said at a press conference that since the Spring Festival, China's international scheduled passenger flights have steadily resumed. Among them, since the Spring Festival, from February 12 to 18, Chinese and foreign airlines have carried out 5,389 international scheduled passenger flights (each round trip is counted as 1 flight), which has recovered to 70 before the epidemic7%, involving the "Belt and Road" countries accounted for 742%。
At present, international scheduled passenger flights are operated to 64 countries, of which 48 are "Belt and Road" countries, accounting for 75%. Flights from 22 countries, including Singapore, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Italy, New Zealand, Turkey, Qatar, Egypt and Bangladesh, have exceeded the pre-pandemic level, and five new countries have been added: Kuwait, Luxembourg, Tanzania, Serbia and Papua New Guinea. In terms of flights between China and the United States, from March 31, Chinese and American airlines will be able to operate a total of 100 scheduled passenger flights per week.
In the next step, the Civil Aviation Administration of China will continue to increase the supply of resources, further optimize the approval process, support Chinese and foreign airlines to increase capacity investment in a timely manner according to market demand, continue to do a good job in ensuring and monitoring the implementation of airlines' international flights, continue to promote the resumption of international flights, and better meet the needs of personnel exchanges.