National Civil Aviation Work Meeting proposes the whole industry working targets of 2009

On January 6th, 2009 the CAAC held the National Civil Aviation Workers’ Meeting. It was discussed in 2008 that the whole civil aviation industry had no transpiration flying accident or aviation safety incident. The accident rate per 10,000 flight hours in the whole industry was 0.28, 3% lower than that of 2007. By the end of 2008, the continuous air transport safety flight hours reached 13.75 million hours. The major expected targets of 2009 for civil aviation developments are: the whole industry turnover will be 41.3 billion ton-km, passenger turnover will be 220 million people, cargo and mail volume will be 4.37 million tons, increased by 10%, 11% and 8% over last year, respectively. The aerial working hours of the general aviation will be increased by 10% from last year.