On February 4, the Spring Festival travel has gradually entered the pre-holiday travel peak, and China Eastern Airlines plans to carry out 3,049 flights on that day, which is expected to transport nearly 400,000 passengers. However, the central and eastern regions of the mainland are entering the longest and most extensive rain, snow and freezing weather process since the beginning of winter, with blue warnings for high winds, yellow warnings for fog, orange warnings for blizzards, and orange warnings for freezing snow, and Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, Henan and other areas are the areas with the highest concentration of freezing rain and heavy snowfall.
When the Spring Festival transportation encounters extremely complicated weather, it affects the hearts of everyone on the way home, and it also affects the hearts of every frontline employee of China Eastern Airlines who sticks to the front line of flight production and service to ensure the Spring Festival transportation. In the cold snap and wind and snow, the people of China Eastern Airlines braved the wind and snow and persevered against the wind, and made every effort to protect the "safe Spring Festival" with responsibility and responsibility, and helped the "warm Spring Festival" with heart and affection.
After the blizzard, we worked together to escort it
At Wuhan Airport, freezing rain and heavy snowfall for several days in a row, dripping into ice, wind and snow, brought great challenges to flight operations and ground support during the peak period of the Spring Festival.
At 7 a.m. on February 4, the maintenance engineers of China Eastern Airlines were carefully clearing the snow cover of the aircraft fuselage on the tarmac to ensure the airworthiness and safety of the aircraft. On the slippery apron, the ground service field support personnel worked together to ensure the baggage loading and unloading of outbound flights. At 8 o'clock on the same day, cadres and employees of China Eastern Airlines came to the apron to support the de-icing and snow removal work, escorting the smooth Spring Festival transportation.
De-icers and snow blowers are on the move
At Lanzhou Airport, there has been snowfall for two consecutive days, and the apron temperature is as low as more than minus 10 degrees Celsius, and the snow is serious, which adds a lot of difficulty to air transportation and ground service support.
China Eastern Airlines has strengthened the safety and security of passenger travel details, focusing on the two main lines of passenger service and operation guarantee to carry out meticulous whole-process control. De-icing trucks, snow blowing machines, snow shovels and brooms were all in battle, and everyone cleared the thick snow between the fuselage, cabin door and shuttle bus in time, paving a warm way home for passengers to travel home during the Spring Festival.
A hand-crafted "safe passage"
At Hefei Airport, moderate to heavy snow began early in the morning of February 3, and a thick layer of snow fell on the apron road. In the early morning of the 3rd and 4th, China Eastern Airlines convened a "snow removal commando" to brave the severe cold to organize snow shoveling on the apron to create an "artificial safety channel" for early departures.
As of 10 a.m. on February 4, Hefei Airport has resumed take-off and landing, and China Eastern Airlines successfully guaranteed 102 inbound and outbound flights on February 3, and is expected to guarantee 91 inbound and outbound flights on February 4.
A line of footprints to protect peace
Nanchang Airport, snowfalling. The plane carrying out the flight from Nanchang to Beijing of China Eastern Airlines put on a "silver armor". China Eastern Airlines Aircraft Maintenance piloted four de-icing vehicles to carry out pre-flight de-icing work for the B8975 aircraft. And the passenger elevator of flight MU9049 was covered with a thick layer of snow after a night of heavy snowfall.
In order to ensure the safety of passengers, the driver of the special vehicle clears the snow on each step. As night fell, the pilot carried out a pre-flight inspection with a flashlight, unaffected by the heavy snow, and his eyes were focused on inspecting every component. His footprints were left on the snow, which may be the footprints of guarding the "Safe Spring Festival".
Brave the cold and check for frost
At Kunming Airport, in the face of extreme weather, the cadres and employees of China Eastern Airlines were on duty and responded in a timely manner. In order to check the icing on the surface of the aircraft, the crew of China Eastern Airlines braved the cold and touched the surface of the aircraft to feel the frost to ensure the safe travel of passengers. In the cold wind, the stevedoring staff loaded the cargo, mail and passenger luggage of the outbound flight onto the plane in turn.
As of February 3, China Eastern Airlines has completed a total of 111 de-icing flights at Kunming Airport.
Check them one by one and escort them on the way home
At Moscow airport, at 19 o'clock in the evening, the outdoor temperature was close to -10 ° C, and there was still wet snow on the apron floor. Yin Hongbao, captain of the Shanghai Flight Department of China Eastern Airlines, disembarked from flight MU592 Moscow-Shanghai Pudong and conducted a pre-flight circumnavigation inspection.
He removed his gloves and touched and brushed them one by one, making sure that every detail of the plane's engines, air intakes, and around the wings was free of ice. On the same day, the flight safely transported 270 passengers from Moscow to Shanghai.
Double-check and prepare
At Xi'an Airport, the snow is still falling, and the weather warning rain, snow and freezing weather has entered the strongest period.
On February 2, before the departure and takeoff of China Eastern Airlines flight MU2153, China Eastern Airlines employees were shoveling snow for the plane. The driver of the crew car squatted in the snow and carefully checked the tires of the vehicle before leaving the vehicle to prevent the vehicle from skidding in the snow.
Hongqiao Airport guarantees more than 1,000 tons of cargo and mail every day
At Shanghai Hongqiao Airport, at noon on February 4, it was raining on the apron, which was the peak of inbound flights.
During the Spring Festival transportation period, the total amount of cargo and mail provided by the garment unloaders of China Eastern Airlines at Hongqiao Airport has exceeded 1,000 tons per day. In the wind and rain, the stevedores stuck to their posts, meticulously and wholeheartedly served the Spring Festival transportation to ensure the smooth and orderly loading of goods, luggage and other items.