At 1:10 a.m. on June 9, Hainan Airlines flight hu797 of HNA Group took off from Meilan International Airport at Haikou, and will arrive at Sydney International Airport at 13:10 local time. The cargo of this flight is mainly general cargo and e-commerce cargo. The flight is carried out by Boeing 787-9, with a single flight duration of 10 hours, and three round-trip flights on Wednesday, Thursday and Japan.

Haikou Sydney is the second regular intercontinental freight route opened by Hainan Airlines in Hainan after Haikou Paris, and the first regular intercontinental freight route for Hainan to and from Australia. Haikou Sydney route can transfer manufacturing products in the Gulf area such as Guangzhou and Shenzhen and trade goods in Yangtze River Delta areas such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai to Australia through Hainan; Hainan local fruits and vegetables and other goods can also take the flight to realize cross-sea export; Australian milk powder, health products and e-commerce goods can also enter China through Hainan, and can be transported to major cities by using Hainan Airlines' domestic route network. The route enriches the cargo transport channels between China and Australia, and helps Hainan free trade port to build an "air channel" of international logistics.

To ensure the safe operation of the first flight, Hainan Airlines strictly complies with the relevant requirements of the national epidemic prevention, complies with the relevant provisions of Civil Aviation Administration on the prevention of the unit epidemic, and supplies for epidemic prevention as required to strengthen the protection. Meanwhile, the implementation of the policy of flight crew return and entry isolation and the killing of cargo and aircraft shall be strengthened to ensure that the work of epidemic prevention is all in all.

The opening of the route is a further embodiment of Hainan Airlines' active implementation of the national "improving international air cargo capacity" directive spirit, and also another practical action to further implement Hainan to build an international shipping aviation hub. At the end of the first China International Consumer Goods Fair held in Hainan in May, Hainan Airlines encrypted, increased frequency Inter Continental freight routes, unblocked international trade, and helped to build a new development pattern of international and domestic double cycle.

At present, Hainan is accelerating its construction into a more open and inclusive free trade port. Hainan, which is at the intersection of domestic and international double cycles, will also usher in more development opportunities. Hainan Airlines, as the main force of air freight construction of Hainan free trade port, will continue to improve the transport service capacity, expand more high-quality international routes, build a large air channel for free trade port to connect the world, and contribute to the smooth domestic and international double cycle and service construction of new development pattern.

Source: civil aviation resources network