“China Civil Aviation News”, China Civil Aviation Network reporter Xu Xiaohong reported: On March 27, the national civil aviation began to implement the 2022 summer and autumn flight schedule. During the new flight season, Qingdao Airport has 102 domestic passenger and cargo destinations, an increase of 3 compared with the same flight season in 2021 and an increase of 4 compared with the same flight season in 2019. Domestic passenger routes reached 3,865 sorties per week.
Since its transfer to Jiaodong, Qingdao Airport has deeply practiced the concept of Qingdao’s international comprehensive transportation hub city construction, actively responded to the impact of the epidemic, and promoted the steady growth of the air transportation industry. Entering the new flight season, under the premise that the time capacity is saturated and there is no time increment, Qingdao Airport makes full use of the international idle time flow resources for the main base airlines to encrypt Qingdao-Harbin, Qingdao-Dalian, Qingdao-Shenyang, Qingdao-Hangzhou, Qingdao-Nanchang, Qingdao-Taiyuan, Qingdao-Hefei, Qingdao-Chengdu and other major cities in large and medium-sized cities; as well as newly opened feeder routes from Qingdao to Tongliao, Chizhou and other places.
Taking this season change as an opportunity, Qingdao Airport has made every effort to promote the construction of a dedicated entry channel for Macau flights, and promote the resumption of the Qingdao-Macau route as soon as possible. This route is the only route to Macau in Shandong Province. It is an air express channel to optimize the business environment between Qingdao and Macau, and plays an important role in promoting economic and trade exchanges, cultural exchanges and tourism services between Qingdao and Macau. Since the outbreak of the epidemic in 2020, the Qingdao-Macao route has been suspended several times, causing inconvenience to passengers from the two places. Macau flight guarantee involves many units, the process is complex, and the points are multi-faceted. In order to better meet the travel needs of passengers, the airport group has practiced the work style of “strictness, truthfulness, meticulousness, practicality and speed” with hard work, established a special work class, and worked with the airport customs, border defense, public security and other on-site units to actively study and in-depth Demonstration, comprehensively promote the construction of the dedicated channel for Macau flights, and achieved outstanding results in process sorting, plan formulation, risk assessment, engineering construction, etc., laying a solid foundation for the resumption of flights to Macau. In view of the difficulties faced by the transformation of the special entry channel, such as process changes, multi-party coordination, installation and commissioning of special equipment layout, etc., the airport group does not pay attention to conditions, takes the initiative to take the lead, implements detailed risk assessment work, and comprehensively considers passenger flow, equipment layout, epidemic prevention and control. , security and other factors, under the premise of strictly abiding by the epidemic prevention policy of “two-way isolation-free” in Qingdao and Macau, the construction plan for the special channel for inbound flights from Macau was formulated in a strict, detailed and scientific manner. The meeting reviewed and approved. At present, the on-site construction has been basically completed, with a new physical partition of 220 meters, 6 new customs inspection rooms, installation and debugging of 4 sets of equipment such as X-ray machines, millimeter wave doors, and radiation detection doors. The total investment in renovation costs is about 1.13 million yuan.
The relevant person in charge of Qingdao Airport Group said that the next step will be to thoroughly implement the requirements of the “Year of Style and Ability Improvement”, so as to “keep the bottom line, forge a first-class team, build a banner, and achieve first-class performance”, together with ports, customs, Frontier defense, public security, airlines and other units work together to promote the high-quality development of Qingdao Airport and contribute to the construction of Qingdao into a modern metropolis.