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Xiamen Airlines celebrates successful completion of aviation safety year in 2024

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Xiamen Airlines celebrates successful completion of aviation safety year in 2024
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Zhao Dong President of Xiamen Airlines | Xiamen Airlines

On December 31, 2024, Xiamen Airlines Group concluded its annual transportation flight tasks with the safe landing of its final flight of the year, MF8428, from Guiyang to Xiamen at Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport. This marked a successful aviation safety year for the airline. Over the course of 2024, Xiamen Airlines and its subsidiaries Hebei Airlines and Jiangxi Airlines safely operated approximately 720,000 flight hours, bringing their total to over 8.81 million safe flight hours.

Zhao Dong, Chairman and Party Secretary of Xiamen Airlines, alongside CEO & President Xie Bing, led a team to greet frontline staff on duty that evening. Cai Wenwei, Director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China's Xiamen Supervision Bureau, also joined them on the apron to welcome the safe arrival of the year-end flight. The leaders presented flowers and conveyed New Year's greetings to the flight crew in appreciation for their efforts throughout the year. Simultaneously, activities were organized by Xiamen Airlines' subsidiaries and branches worldwide to celebrate this milestone.

Safety remains paramount for Xiamen Airlines as emphasized in President Xi Jinping's instructions to "establish a strong safety baseline." The company focused on "strengthening responsibility, consolidating foundations, and controlling risks" by advancing six major safety systems throughout 2024.

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Xiamen Airlines enhanced its safety culture by increasing employees' safety awareness and skills through various initiatives including forums on safety management experiences and rewarding voluntary safety reports. Safety training sessions were conducted along with events like safety warning days.

Technological innovation played a crucial role in supporting operations at Xiamen Airlines in 2024. The airline integrated technologies such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence into its upgraded safety management platform. Developments included pilot skills lifecycle management systems (PLM), meteorological system upgrades, pilot fatigue management projects among others which strengthened risk control capabilities.

The fleet expanded with 14 new aircrafts totaling 216 planes as over 290,000 flights transported more than 43 million passengers during this period. New domestic routes were introduced while international connections extended across continents with resumed services from Fuzhou to New York among other destinations.

Xiamen Airlines has been recognized for service excellence receiving awards like APEX "World-Class Airline" three times consecutively along with ten consecutive "Best Airline" honors due largely due sincere service offerings under brands such as "Tianji Gallery," "Egret Miles," etc., coupled with air-rail intermodal transport implementations.

Looking forward towards becoming an exemplary century-old carrier maintaining exceptional performance standards contributing significantly toward civil aviation development nationwide remains central focus going forward according company statement issued recently outlining future aspirations goals shared publicly now past week latest updates released timeframes outlined therein

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