A City Springs up While an Airport Arises: World Routes 2018 Kicks off in Guangzhou

On September 16, the 24th World Route Development Forum kicked off in Guangzhou, an international metropolis built over 2230 years ago.

Release time : 2018-09-18 16:13:32

source : PR Newswire

On September 16, the 24th World Route Development Forum kicked off in Guangzhou, an international metropolis built over 2230 years ago.

The Routes event has been commonly dubbed as "the Olympics" and "World Expo" in the international civil aviation community. The World Routes 2018 has an unprecedented scale, attracting more than 3500 guests of airlines, airport administrative organizations, governments and travel agencies in 115 countries, a record high since the first edition in 1995. This grand event has generated prime opportunities for Guangzhou and China in international markets and witnessed the rise of Guangzhou's international aviation hub.

In recent years, Guangzhou's international aviation hub and airport economy have experienced rapid development, with a new airport that acts as a new driver for national development. The aviation hub, as it improves, allows Guangzhou to vigorously promote the Belt and Road Initiative and drastically enhance its innovative capacity and ability to stimulate the development of the surrounding areas.

The Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport is the third largest in China. At the opening ceremony of the forum, the Guangdong Airport Authority, organizer of the event, signed memorandums of cooperation in developing air routes with seven Chinese and foreign airlines, and important routes to Madrid, Milan, St. Petersburg, and Islamabad are expected to open in the near future. Statistics show that the Baiyun Airport has set in place 23 international routes that were newly-launched or saw an increase of flight frequency and connected another seven destinations since the flag handover ceremony at the World Routes 2017 in Barcelona last September. By far the airport has been home to nearly 80 Chinese and foreign airlines, and it has air connections with more than 210 destinations, nearly 90 of them being overseas.

"A world-class aviation hub can bring in a huge and valuable traffic," said