During the Spring Festival this year, four large domestically produced C919 aircraft served the Spring Festival for the first time, flying on the Beijing-Shanghai and Shanghai-Chengdu routes.
At 10 o'clock in the evening, on the workbench of Zhang Tinglei, the duty dispatcher of the C919 large domestic aircraft, multiple displays continuously updated information. It was the first time to participate in the Spring Festival travel rush. Core data such as weather, fuel, and routes that are closely related to the safe flight of the crew were accelerating to "run". .
The first flight of a domestically produced large aircraft during the Spring Festival travel rush was from Shanghai to Chengdu. The blue sky in Shanghai is online, cloudless, and the visibility is very high. It is a good weather for flying.
Tourist Cheng Tangkai: I am so excited. It is my first time to fly on the C919, because this is an aircraft we developed ourselves. Its streamlined structure, landing gear and engine are really beautiful.
On-board announcement: We are taking the C919, from Shanghai to Chengdu, from the land of flowers to the home of giant pandas. Let us start a New Year journey with C919.
It was the first time for many passengers to fly on a domestically produced large aircraft. They found that some of the designs were quite practical: there were neck supports on the backs of the seats and charging sockets under the seats. The reporter found that many people also chose the middle seat, which had a low sales rate in the past.
Zhang Wenjing, Chief Purser of China Eastern Airlines C919: A very special thing about us is that the three-row seats in the economy class are wider than the middle seats of other aircraft, by 1.5 centimeters.
While every detail enhances the travel experience, the food on domestic large aircraft also has new ideas.
CCTV reporter Jiang Shulin: First of all, it’s White Rabbit’s red bean flavored milk. This is the first time I’ve seen such a taste. There is also this Osmanthus Tiaotou Cake, which is produced by a time-honored brand in Shanghai. It can be said that this small dinner plate on the C919 aircraft brings Shanghai’s local specialties to the passengers.
After a three-and-a-half-hour flight, C919 landed smoothly at Chengdu Tianfu International Airport. The reporter learned that as C919s are successively delivered to airlines, domestically produced large aircraft will continue to be put online during the Spring Festival in the future, and the routes will be more abundant.
Under the same blue sky, there are also "new faces" serving the Spring Festival. China Southern Airlines Group has 22 foreign flight attendants serving the Spring Festival for the first time this year.
It was the first time for Zheng Meijun and Huang Peiyi from Malaysia to participate in the Spring Festival travel rush. Faced with a higher than usual increase in passenger flow, they agreed on a small goal: to be able to do what they say and to provide services before passengers ask. The reporter noticed that they took out a small piece of paper and looked at it from time to time during their service breaks.
Zheng Meijun, Malaysian flight attendant of China Southern Airlines Group: There was a passenger sitting in row 36 K, and the luggage could not be placed in the back, so I moved it to the front for him. I was worried that I would forget it, so I wrote it down as soon as I put it down.
Huang Peiyi, Malaysian flight attendant of China Southern Airlines Group: Now is the Spring Festival travel period again. When we received the information box, we specifically asked if we could get two more packets, and tried to ensure that every sleeping passenger had such a small sticker in front of him.
The whole flight from Guangzhou to Dalian takes more than 3 hours, which is a long time among domestic flights. In addition, due to the Spring Festival travel rush, the passenger flow is large. Under the coordination of the flight attendant, Zheng Meijun and Huang Peiyi have both collaboration and division of labor.
At the China Southern Airlines Crew Operations Center, reporters saw this year’s Spring Festival travel schedule. The dense arrangements showed that in addition to participating in domestic flights during the Spring Festival travel period, foreign flight attendants would also fly many international flights.
Li Yimin, a Malaysian flight attendant of China Southern Airlines Group: Domestic and international (flight) areas are relatively large, so in our dormitory, we will prepare two boxes of different sizes, one for short- and medium-haul flights, and the other for flights. Long-haul routes. Therefore, no matter which route we fly, we can quickly prepare the clothing we need.
Liang Xiang, Manager of the Eighth Flight Attendance Department of China Southern Airlines Group: Our 22 foreign flight attendants are from Malaysia, Japan and South Korea. They also have the tradition of celebrating the Spring Festival in their countries, but they choose to stay on the job. They are not only the new faces of our Spring Festival transportation, but also the new force in ensuring services.
