Regional flights are exempt from airport construction fee

According to the Xinhua news Agency approved by the relevant State departments, since January 1, 2011, exempt regional aircraft to fly domestic regional flights airport management construction fees. This policy will promote China's regional aviation development, and it is of great significance to optimize the policy environment of China's regional aviation development.　　Passengers departing from the regional airport will not be required to pay the airport construction fee. China's civil Aviation Administration officials introduced yesterday, according to the provisions, the exemption range of the regional model including domestic new boat 60, CRJ200, including 8 kinds of regional aircraft. The flights carried out by these regional aircraft involved 844 routes, connecting 129 airports in 29 provinces (districts). Among them, the Central and western provinces of the airport accounted for 64%, the throughput of 2 million passengers below the small and medium-sized airport accounted for 71%.　　Nearly 10 million visitors are expected to benefit from this policy every year.　　The official said that the exemption policy focus to the Midwest, remote and other economically underdeveloped areas tilt to the small airport tilt, to the middle and short routes tilt, so that the vast number of remote areas can enjoy the cost of air consumption, fully embodies the Civil Aviation Public Service equalization and universal service concept.　　The official said that the exemption policy is also a new measure to improve people's livelihood in the area of air transport, which will effectively promote the improvement of civil aviation service in less developed areas, promote regional economic development, accelerate the all-round development of the economy and society, and effectively promote the all-round and coordinated development of China's civil aviation industry.　　The official said that in recent years, the Civil Aviation Bureau of the United Ministry of Finance has issued a number of support for regional aviation development of financial policies, including regional aviation subsidies, small and medium-sized airport subsidies. From the implementation of the situation, the policy effect is obvious, the industry response is good.　　The introduction of the exemption policy will be coordinated with the previous policy, forming a joint effort to jointly promote China's regional aviation development.　　Opinion exemption policy promoting the development of regional aviation industry experts pointed out that the exemption of regional flights after the airport construction fee, passenger travel cost reduction will effectively stimulate the regional transport consumption, prompting airlines to increase the number of routes to connect small and medium-sized cities. At the same time, in the market demand, the passenger flow into and out of the regional airport will increase significantly, the airport utilization and operational capacity greatly improved. Therefore, the exemption policy has positive significance for promoting the development of China's regional aviation, perfecting the route network layout and improving the accessibility and patency of air transport. According to Xinhua