Aircraft movements up in July

Chinese airlines registered 146,051 aircraft movements in July, higher by 14,593 compared to June. The average on-time performance is 81.58 percent, up 3.49 percentage points from last year. The on-time performance of scheduled flights is 81.74 percent, and 77.44 percent for charter flights. According to the data, there were 11,646 abnormal flights attributed to airlines, including airline plan, engineering mechanic, transport service and air crew, comprising 43.3 percent of the total abnormal flights. There were 6,749 abnormal flights due to weather (25.1 percent of abnormal flights); 5,517 movements by air traffic management reasons, including flow control and flight service (20.5 percent); 431 movements attributed to passengers (1.6 percent); and 1,588 movements for other reasons (5.9 percent)