In recent days, with the opening of the Winter Olympics and the arrival of the return peak of the Spring Festival holiday, the number of civil aviation flights has increased significantly. The reporter learned from the Central South Air Traffic Control Bureau of the Civil Aviation Administration on the 7th that during the Spring Festival holiday this year, the control center of the Central South Air Traffic Control Bureau guaranteed 5957 take-off and landing flights in Guangzhou Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport Company Limited(600004) and 37928 flights in Central South China.
On February 6, the first six days of the year, Guangzhou Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport Company Limited(600004) ushered in the return peak. The number of flights guaranteed by air traffic control reached 1254, the most since the Spring Festival transportation, an increase of 10% over the same period last year.
This winter, the overall temperature in central and southern China is lower than that in the same period of the year, and the precipitation is more than that in the same period of the year. There is low-temperature rain, snow and freezing weather in central and Northern China, and low-temperature cloudy and rainy weather in South China. In bad weather, the situation of epidemic prevention and control during the Spring Festival is repeated, and the superposition of Winter Olympics guarantee and spring transportation guarantee has brought challenges to the front-line personnel on duty of the control center.
The control center pays close attention to the changes of flight volume. According to the operation characteristics of “high peak hours and concentrated peak days” during the Spring Festival transportation, it timely strengthens communication with the meteorological department, makes good use of various technical prevention means and tacit cooperation with Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport Company Limited(600004) Transportation Management Committee, so as to maintain the average normal flight release rate at more than 95% during the Spring Festival transportation.
According to the forecast of the meteorological center of Central South Air Traffic Control Bureau, before the end of the Spring Festival transportation, there are still frequent cold air activities in Central South China, phased low-temperature rain and snow weather in the north, and cloudy and rainy weather in Hunan and South China. In the gap between cold air activities, the central and northern parts of central and southern China and the coastal areas of South China are prone to low clouds, low visibility weather and heavy fog.
Meanwhile, local convective weather will begin to appear in South China. The meteorological center of Central South Air Traffic Control Bureau continued to do a good job in special weather forecast and made preparations for the initial thunder of Guangzhou airport.