Chengdu Tianfu International Airport will introduce Internet of Things technologies such as face recognition check-in and RFID luggage tracking

Currently, the domestic civil aviation market is recovering strongly. As one of the three largest state-owned airlines, China Eastern Airlines' domestic flights are steadily increasing. Among the world's top ten airlines, China Eastern Airlines' main operating data is the best performing and most resilient, and it is expected to recover to 90% by the end of the year. In 2021, Chengdu Tianfu International Airport will soon be put into operation, and China Eastern Airlines is making every effort to promote the relevant construction, speed up the resumption of work and production, and actively implement the "six stability" and the implementation of the "six guarantees."

National strategic layout blessing China Eastern presses the "fast forward button" in Chengdu

On May 17, 2020, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Development of the Western Region in the New Era and Forming a New Pattern". The opinions clearly support Sichuan's comprehensive advantages to create inland open highlands and development and opening hubs, and encourage Chengdu to accelerate Build an international gateway hub city. Under multiple opportunities such as the “One Belt and One Road” initiative, a new round of western development, a new land-sea channel in the western region, and the Chengdu-Chongqing area dual-city economic circle, Chengdu, which connects the east and the west, and connects Europe and Asia, is accelerating its pace of becoming a world city.

On June 4, the "Civil Aviation Operations Report for May 2020" showed that in May, Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport became the world's busiest airport in terms of takeoffs and landings. It is reported that China Eastern Airlines has been deeply involved in the Chengdu aviation market in recent years, with an average annual growth of 4.2% in the number of seats placed in the Chengdu market and an average annual growth of 6.1% in passenger traffic.

Chengdu Tianfu International Airport is my country's largest civil transportation hub airport project built in the national "13th Five-Year Plan", and its function is positioned as a national-level international aviation hub. In 2021, Tianfu International Airport will be completed and put into operation, and Chengdu will become the first city in the western region to enter a new pattern of "two fields in one" operation.

China Eastern Airlines, Air China, Sichuan Airlines and Lucky Air are both airlines approved by the state to build a base at Chengdu Tianfu International Airport. At present, the three sector projects (production auxiliary area, maintenance area, and aviation food production area) for the resumption of work and production of the Eastern Airlines project of Chengdu Tianfu International Airport and various operational preparations are proceeding in an orderly manner.

Since the start of construction of the China Eastern Airlines Base Project at Chengdu Tianfu International Airport on July 31, 2019, various sectors have actively promoted all aspects of construction. It is now a critical period for the decisive battle base project to build a high-quality development power source for China Eastern Airlines. As a base airline, China Eastern Airlines participates in the construction of Chengdu Tianfu International Airport, actively leverages the resource advantages of its main business segment in Chengdu, conducts active and effective communication, fully achieves information symmetry, obtains project construction related information, avoids "information islands", and ensures the project Normal construction provides a strong backing for the rapid progress of construction. China Eastern Airlines fully promotes the high-quality construction of the project, realizes the synchronous completion and synchronous acceptance of the airport, and realizes the overall goal of "Decisive Battle 1130" (completion of the first phase of completion and acceptance on November 30, 2020).

Rich experience in "two battles" China Eastern Airlines will enter the "one city, two battles" operating system in Chengdu