Chartered Flights Bring About Flourishing Outbound Travel in Ningbo
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Tuesday, 26 March 2013 16:53
The number of exit-entry tourists at Ningbo Airport has increased tremendously in recent years. According to statistics of Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, it in total quarantined and supervised 1131 exit-entry passenger flights and 147 thousand personnel from January and February in 2013, with year-on-year growth of 38.3% and 33.7% respectively. It is worth noting that this is a continuation of the robust growth of the exit-entry flights in 2012. There were 6366 exit-entry flights and 778 thousand personnel being quarantined in 2012.
Cheap tickets are always snapped up by common citizens who want outbound travels by air. Now Tonlesap Airlines has opened the flights between Ningbo and Siem Reap of Combodia; Eastar Jet of ROK has opened Ningbo-Cheju flights; Jin Air of ROK has opened Ningbo-Seoul flights; and Tai AirAsia has opened Ningbo-Bangkok fights. There are ten international and regional airlines running in Ningbo Lishe International Airport, among which low-cost airlines count for half, presenting a situation where many low-cost airlines vie for the market of international travel chartered flights in Ningbo. Timesaving and cheap international chartered flights are opened up in a large number, which save costs for people in Ningbo and surrounding areas who travel by air, promote the development of the tourism industry and stimulate domestic demands. Meanwhile it lays a good foundation for Ningbo Airport to seek for a differentiated development among the airports in Shanghai, Hangzhou and other cities. According to estivo-autumnal flight scheduling at hand made by various airlines, along with the growth of entry-exit flights such as to Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan and other international chartered flights managed by low-cost airlines, the number of entry-exit flights is expected to maintain a rapid growth.
The exit-entry passenger flow volume is always at record highs. Flights in Ningbo Airport are composed mainly of travel chartered ones and there are many red-eye flights. Confronted with all the things above, the inspection and quarantine department of Ningbo Airport overcomes practical difficulties like personnel insufficiency, heavy tasks or a lasting span of working time, carries out various serving measures to create custom clearance services with higher quality, efficiency and convenience, constructs a safe, harmonious and smooth port environment, and makes contributions to serving Ningbo’s open economy. There are many measures including: setting up green channel and implementing fast inspection and release to old, weak, ill, disabled or pregnant passengers and ones with emergency and special cases; Carrying out the system of custom clearance on demand and clearing aircrafts or personnel with special needs like corporate aircrafts at any moment they arrive by making appointments; establishing inspecting pattern with people-machine-dog in trinity and accelerating the speed of clearance; arranging people to collect the international epidemic information, reinforcing international travel alerting through provincial or municipal papers and the website of Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Bureau and cautioning passengers bewaring of highly pathogenic epidemic like avian influenza and the flu; setting up Youth Volunteer Service Team, innovating convenience-for-people measures and providing the passengers with sincere service.
