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Volume 14,Issue 3 Autumn 2012

CAAC issues aviation notice for the 3rd quarter of 2007

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The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has issued aviation statistics for its third-quarter findings. The aviation notice touches on five important issues. These include reports on China’s aviation safety, air transport, general aviation, benefit to economy, and on-time performance. Based on the CAAC, the whole industry shows no record of transport or general flight accidents during the third quarter of 2007 on matters of aviation safety, although 31 minor incidents were recorded. Between January and September of 2007, the entire aviation industry of China maintained its accident-free status in transport and general flight. It has a clean slate on aviation, ground, aircraft maintenance, and aviation defense accidents for the full first three quarters of the year. It has reported 89 flight incidents, an increase of three incidents compared to the same period in 2006. From January to September, The CAAC data shows that, from January to September, China’s civil aviation transport recorded 34 months or 8.9 million hours of safe flight. The entire industry air transport of China for the third quarter of 2007 recorded total traffic of 9.87 billion ton kilometers, up by 16 percent on a year-on-year basis. The passenger volume reached 51.912 million, up by 15.3 percent compared to the same period of the previous year, while cargo and mail totaled 1.052 million tons, an increase of 11.5 percent on a year-on-year basis. According to the CAAC data, China’s domestic flights, including Hong Kong and Macao have steadily increased. The total domestic transport reached 6.51 billion ton kilometers, up by 14.8 percent compared to 2006. China’s domestic passenger volume reached 47.327 million, an increase of 15.1 percent, and cargo and mail reached 755,000 tons, up by 8.3 percent on a year-on-year basis. China’s international flight transport registered 3.36 billion ton kilometers, up by 18.3 percent on a year-on year basis. It recorded a passenger throughput of 4.586 million, an increase of 17.4 percent compared to last year, and an international cargo and mail throughput of 297,000 tons, up by 20.7 percent The number of international air routes also increased compared to domestic air routes. The period between September and December of 2007 showed a 79.7 percent scheduled flight occupancy rate, an increase of 2.4 percentage points compared to the same period of 2006. The scheduled flight load factor is 69.3 percent, higher by two percentage points. Over the entire first three quarters of 2007, China’s aviation industry recorded a total transport flight of 2.735 million hours, an increase of 16.6 percent on a year-on-year basis. It registered a total traffic of 26.57 billon ton kilometers, up by 18.3 percent. The total influx of passengers reached 139 million, up by 16.2 percent, while cargo and mail totaled 2.879 million tons, an increase of 13.9 percent. China’s domestic flights, including Hong Kong and Macao, recorded a total domestic transport of 17.46 billion ton kilometers, up by 15.6 percent. The total domestic passenger volume reached 126 million, an increase of 15.8 percent on a year-on-year basis, and cargo and mail reached 2.074 million tons, up by 10.2 percent compared to 2006. China’s total international flight transport reached 9.11 billion ton kilometers, up by 23.8 percent. The total passenger volume reached 12.47 million, an increase of 20.2 percent. It had a total international cargo and mail throughput of 805,000 tons, up by 24.6 percent compared to the first three quarters of 2006. The total increase rate of China’s international air routes is higher compared to the increase of domestic air routes. For the first three quarters of 2007, there was a 76 percent scheduled flight occupancy rate, a two-percentage-point increase compared to the same period of the previous year. The scheduled flight load factor is 66.5 percent, down by 0.6 percentage points on a year-on-year basis. By the end of September, there were 1,099 registered civil aircraft movements over China’s airspace, an increase of 101 movements over last year. Under the issue of general aviation, the CAAC released a notice based on primary statistics that China’s general aviation has registered 57,756 flight hours from January to September of 2007. Based on the data from the CAAC, the entire civil aviation industry of China had a revenue of RMB 73.57 billion in the third quarter of 2007. This is a 12.5 percent increase compared to the previous year. The aviation industry’s total operational cost reached RMB 65.07 billion, up by 8.3 percent, and a total profit of RMB 9.1 billion, up by RMB 3.6 billion. The total income of the entire aviation industry of China from January to September amounted to RMB 195.4 billion, an increase of 16.8 percent compared to the same period in 2006. The total cost amounted to RMB 183.36 billion, up by 12.8 percent, and the total profit reached RMB 13.72 billion, an increase of RMB 9.34 billion compared to the same period of the previous year. The last of the notices issued by the CAAC shows the on-time performance of China’s aviation up by 1.1 percentage points on a year-on-year basis. The accumulated scheduled flights in China have reached 438,000. Of the 356,000 normal flights, the flight on-time performance of China reached 81.3 percent. According to the aviation notice issued by the CAAC, the airlines recorded to have maintained higher on-time performance for the third quarter of 2007 includes China Eastern with 82.54 percent, China Southern with 82.53 percent, and Hainan Airlines with 82.42 percent.

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