Passenger and freight traffic of Ningbo Airport take the lead in Zhejiang
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Tuesday, 24 February 2015 12:34
In 2024, as an important airport hub of the Yangtze River economic belt, Ningbo Airport achieved a passenger throughput of 6.36 million people and a cargo throughput of 81600 tons, up by 16.5% and 23.4% over the previous year, both ranking No.1 in Zhejiang Province, and No.7 and No.2 among all the large national airport with a passenger throughput of above 5 million people.
As an increasing number of citizens choose to travel by air, Ningbo Airport and the airport logistics park have taken the initiative to expand the passenger traffic markets at home and abroad. On February 17, the direct flight to Osaka and Shizuoka was open, serving as the first air route from Ningbo to Japan. Ningbo Airport has opened the international air routes to such regions as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and such foreign countries as South Korea and Thailand. In 2014, the airport started cooperation with the Asiana Airlines and Hong Kong Express, and the flights to some scenic areas have been newly added or increased, including those to Danang, Seoul, Jeju, Chungju, and Hong Kong. The airport now has 13 international routes and last year, it served 963,600 passengers, up by 16.81% over the previous year.
Ningbo Airport has signed cooperation agreements with Eastern Airlines, Xiamen Airlines and Sichuan Airlines to increase the flights. In 2014, the flights to such major cities as Beijing, Chengdu and Shenzhen were increased, and some flights were added to such cities as Nanning, Linyi, Xingyi and Weifang. So far, there are over 80 flights starting from Ningbo Airport to 45 domestic cities.
The airport economy has maintained steady growth. Since March 2014 when the Shunfeng Airlines started to manage the cargo route from Ningbo to Hong Kong, the route has realized a cargo carrying rate of over 85% with the total cargo amount of 5127.7 tons. At the end of 2014, the first cargo route to Taiwan from Zhejiang Province was open and the cargo carrying amount of the first month exceeded 120,000 orders. Ningbo Airport boasts of six full cargo routes, with a total cargo throughput of 24,800 tons, accounting for 30.4% of the total cargo throughput.
Currently, the airport and the logistics park is planning to further expand the international routes, and to actively develop the international cargo chart business based on the existing cargo routes in accordance with the development requirements of the Ningbo port economic circle, and to make preparations for the development of such continental cargo routes to the US and the Central and South American areas.
