Ningbo Airport develops both passenger flight and freight flight
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- Published: Tuesday, 18 July 2023 12:52
Under the azure sky of Tokyo, Budapest, and New York, the frequent flights from Ningbo Airport shimmer in the sunlight. Over the past week, the average daily flight volume of Ningbo Airport has exceeded 300, beyond the level of the same period in 2019.
Under the guidance of the “No.1 open project” of the “Sweet Potato Economy”, Ningbo Airport has focused on connecting the global market, gathering high-end business formats, and enhancing openness, by accelerating the layout of passenger and freight routes, achieving full coverage across the top three major economic zones of Europe, America, and Asia.
At the beginning of this year, the Spring and Autumn Airlines of Japan resumed its international passenger flights from Ningbo to Narita Airport of Tokyo. 34 months have passed before Ningbo Airport resumed its direct flight to Tokyo. Subsequently, flights from Ningbo to
Thailand and Bangkok resumed, as well as the flights from Ningbo to Singapore and Nha Trang of Vietnam. In May this year, the first regular intercontinental passenger route in the history of Ningbo Airlines was opened, with a round-trip route from Ningbo to Budapest, Hungary. From Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia to Europe, the international aviation network of Ningbo Airport is becoming increasingly extensive.
In the meantime, domestic passenger routes at Ningbo Airport are becoming increasingly dense. Hong Kong Express and Air Macau have direct flights every day. Such business cities as Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, as well as tourist cities such as Xi’an and Chongqing, all boast a booming passenger flow and frequent flights. Not long ago, Ningbo Airport launched a direct flight to Shihezi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, with a total distance of approximately 3500 kilometers, serving as the longest direct domestic flight from Ningbo Airport.
More widely covering and denser routes mean moreplanes taking off and landing. The latest data show that there were 48,200 planes taking off and landing at Ningbo Airport in the first half of this year, an increase of 82.4% year on year and 7.5% higher than that of 2019. In the first half of this year, the airport achieved a passenger throughput of 6.198 million, a year-on-year increase of 116.4%. The domestic passenger throughput has fully bounced back to the level of 2019.
In addition to the passenger flights, the freight flights have been well developed. From salmon and lobster of North America to durian and mangosteen Southeast Asia, Ningbo is accelerating its construction of fresh cold chain port projects, promoting its move towards an international freight hub by air.
The continuously expanding routes are the guarantee of express transportation of fresh food. Taking advantage of the Fifth Traffic Right, Ningbo Airport has successively launched the fifth traffic right cargo routes in the Americas, including New York-Ningbo-Incheon-New York and Chicago-Ningbo-Incheon-Chicago, and newly opened the Reykjavik-Liege-Ningbo route, the first all-cargo aircraft route with fifth traffic right in Europe by Zhejiang Province. Reportedly, in the first half of this year, Ningbo Airport launched four new international all-cargo aircraft routes, with the Ningbo-Dubai route filling the gap of cargo routes from Ningbo to the Middle East.
At present, Ningbo Airport has stably operated nine international all-cargo aircraft routes, and has constructed an international cargo route network spanning the top three major economic regions of Europe, America, and Asia. In the first half of this year, the cargo and mail throughput reached 58,800 tons, with a year-on-year increase of 46.6%
