Ningbo Municipal Government

04/16/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/15/2024 18:05

Serving the Canton Fair, Ningbo Airport took off and landed 10 wide-body...

From April 15th to May 5th, the 135th Canton Fair was held in Guangzhou in three phases. During the Canton Fair, the Guangzhou-Shenzhen route of Ningbo Airport will greatly encrypt wide-body large passenger aircraft to meet the business travel needs of passengers. Taking yesterday as an example, among the 40 round-trip flights from Ningbo Airport to Guangzhou Baiyun and Shenzhen Bao'an Airport, there were 10 wide-body passenger flights, of which the Guangzhou route accounted for 8 flights. The Ningbo-Guangzhou route has become the "air trunk line" with the highest proportion of wide-body passenger aircraft at Ningbo Airport.

10 wide-body passenger aircraft flights mean that under the same number of take-off and landing flights, the daily round-trip passenger transport capacity between Ningbo and Guangzhou and Shenzhen has increased by nearly 1,700 people, and the air-ground Internet access and other services provided by wide-body passenger aircraft are more suitable for the travel needs of business passengers, which also means that from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., more than one wide-body passenger plane can be seen taking off and landing on the runway of Ningbo Airport almost every hour, and Ningbo Airport ushered in a highlight moment.

Industry insiders said that these flight types cover almost all wide-body passenger aircraft models in China except for Boeing 747 passenger aircraft, of which Airbus 350 "Magic Mirror" is currently the world's most advanced wide-body passenger aircraft model, Boeing 777 is currently the world's largest twin-engine passenger aircraft, which can carry more than 360 passengers at a time.

"Wide-body airliners carry more passengers, travel longer distances and are more comfortable in the air. As a result, these aircraft types are more likely to be used on important business routes, international and even intercontinental routes. A person in the civil aviation industry told that the number of wide-body passenger aircraft can reflect the overall grade of an airport, and the proportion of wide-body passenger aircraft on a commercial route can also reflect the "gold content"of a route.

In order to better meet the travel needs of business passengers, Ningbo Airport has opened the "China Southern Airlines Express" from Ningbo to Guangzhou on the basis of encrypted wide-body passenger aircraft, focusing on "bus-based" operation and "on-the-go" flexible changes, and its biggest highlight is to provide free change and change of visa for flights on the same date and flight segment, which is the first time that Ningbo Airport has launched this type of service.

It should be reminded that passengers currently taking flights from Ningbo to Guangzhou of China Southern Airlines and Hainan Airlines must go to the T1 terminal of Ningbo Airport to check in or handle related business.