On December 26th, Jiaxing Nanhu Airport, the first professional air cargo hub in the Yangtze River Delta, was officially put into operation. On the morning of that day, a fully loaded YTO Airlines B757 cargo plane and an A320 passenger plane bound for Beijing Daxing took off from Jiaxing Nanhu Airport, achieving "simultaneous passenger and cargo flight".

It is reported that Jiaxing Nanhu Airport is positioned as a "hub for both passenger and cargo, with cargo as the main focus", with a flight zone level of 4E. It is a landmark project for Zhejiang Province to promote the construction of a world-class port and a strong transportation province, and is of great significance for Zhejiang's construction of a high-energy open and strong province.

As a professional air cargo hub, Jiaxing Nanhu Airport has set up 33 dedicated cargo stands out of a total of 56 stands, focusing on developing international cargo business. It will gradually open 28 international cargo routes, gradually forming an international cargo route network that radiates Asia, connects Europe and America, and connects emerging overseas markets.

The manufacturing industry in the Yangtze River Delta region is dense and high-tech industries are developed, which has a high demand for air cargo transportation with high timeliness. Jiaxing Nanhu Airport has made up for the shortcomings of the lack of professional air cargo hubs in the Yangtze River Delta, and has formed synergy and complementarity with comprehensive hub airports in Shanghai, Hangzhou and other places. The relevant person in charge of Jiaxing Aviation Hub Office stated that the airport is also an important transportation node in the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor of the Yangtze River Delta, and has a promoting effect on the optimization of the industrial structure of the Yangtze River Delta.

Honghe Town, Xiuzhou District, Jiaxing City, which is only a few kilometers away from Jiaxing Nanhu Airport, produces hundreds of millions of sweaters annually and is a well-known sweater distribution center. The operation of the airport can further enhance the local sweater industry's ability to quickly respond to small orders and reach overseas destinations more quickly, "said the person in charge of the operation of Honghe" Sweater Pai "global one-stop cross-border sweater procurement platform.

In terms of passenger transportation, on the first day of operation, Jiaxing Nanhu Airport has opened 4 routes and 5 destinations in Beijing Daxing, Guangzhou, Chengdu Shuangliu, Changchun Jiaxing Shenzhen, and plans to open 4 routes and 5 destinations in Kunming, Chongqing, Xi'an, Harbin Jiaxing Haikou before and after next year's Spring Festival travel rush, connecting Jiaxing with important customer markets across the country and continuously building a high-quality passenger transportation route network that connects core cities and covers prime time.

The person in charge of Jiaxing Airlines Hub Office stated that Jiaxing Nanhu Airport is designed and built according to the standard of a passenger throughput of 1.8 million and a cargo and mail support capacity of 1.1 million tons by 2030. After the airport is put into operation, an efficient and connected aviation network will be formed, with a 1-hour flight circle covering all regions of the Yangtze River Delta; The 3-hour flight circle covers key urban clusters such as Beijing Tianjin Hebei, Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, Chengdu Chongqing, and 60% of East Asia, becoming an important puzzle for improving the regional comprehensive transportation system.

Editor: Tang Yun