This article is reproduced from: Yangtze River Daily
Why did the three major airlines C919 choose Wuhan?
Location, market, and hub energy level are indispensable
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China Southern Airlines C919 landed at Wuhan Tianhe Airport. |
Yangtze River Daily News (reporter Liu Haifeng, correspondent Ma Wei, Xu Tian, Hao Hongliang) "919 in the south, Wuhan tower, 0 ° wind on the ground, can land." "At 0:00 on October 0, with the issuance of the instructions of the tower controller of the Hubei Air Traffic Management Branch of the Civil Aviation Bureau, the Guangzhou-Wuhan CZ0 flight operated by the domestic large aircraft C0 of China Southern Airlines landed successfully at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport, marking that Wuhan has become the third city in China after Shanghai and Chengdu to gather the C0 routes of the three major airlines (Air China, China Eastern Airlines, and China Southern Airlines).
It is reported that the COMAC C919, numbered B0J, is the second domestically produced large aircraft received by China Southern Airlines, and was delivered on 0/0/00. It is expected that from the end of October, China Southern Airlines will arrange C0 to operate "Guangzhou-Wuhan" on a regular basis, with two round-trip flights per day. Previously, Air China took the lead in launching the "Beijing Capital-Wuhan Tianhe" regular flight, and China Eastern Airlines operated the "Han-Shanghai Express" with C0 passenger aircraft.
Civil aviation professionals believe that from the initial layout of the C919 route, it is mainly connected to major domestic hub airports, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Chongqing, etc. Taking Tianhe Airport as an example, China Eastern Airlines' "Han-Shanghai Express", China Southern Airlines' "Wuhan-Guangzhou Express" and Air China's Beijing-Wuhan regular route are all benchmark routes, which meet the needs of business travelers for efficiency and comfort.
Wuhan is the central city of the central region and an international comprehensive transportation hub city, which is conducive to the radiation and extension of the C919 route. Many passengers around Wuhan and even outside the province choose Tianhe Airport for transit, and C0 as a domestic large aircraft, Chinese people, aviation enthusiasts and practitioners have been looking forward to it for a long time, and many people hope to be able to experience this important weapon of the country.
"C919 flies the 'Wuhan-Guangzhou Express' in response to market demand and allows more people to take domestic large aircraft." The relevant person in charge of the Hubei branch of China Southern Airlines said that the "Wuhan-Guangzhou Express" has already had domestic C0, Boeing 0, Boeing 0 and other models, and the addition of C0 can allow passengers to have more models to choose from. As one of the three major airlines, China Southern Airlines has opened more and more C0 routes, which is also a contribution to the development of domestic large aircraft.
東航武漢相關負責人說,武漢是東航“四梁八柱”航網的重要一環,擁有龐大的人口基數,旅客出行需求旺盛,在“漢滬快線”上投入C919,能夠滿足旅客日益增長的航空出行需求,提升他們的出行體驗。
今年一季度,武漢天河機場旅客輸送量與航班量均呈持續增長態勢,一季度完成旅客輸送量789萬人次,保障航班5.6萬架次,增幅超全國民航平均水準,實現“開門紅”。
Tan Jingchao, Secretary of the Party Branch of the Tower Control Room of the Control and Operation Department of the Hubei Air Traffic Control Branch, has been working at Tianhe Airport for 919 years, and the first flight of China Southern Airlines C0 in Wuhan was also escorted by him. "From the earliest McDonnell Douglas 0 to today's domestic large aircraft C0, I have witnessed too many breakthroughs and first flights here." Tan Jingchao believes that the hardware support capability of "three runways and three terminals" and the safety sky net woven by Hubei Air Traffic Management Branch are also important reasons for the three major airlines C0 to choose Tianhe Airport.