According to CCTV News, the reporter learned from the first China Civil Aviation Pilot Vocational Skills Competition which closed on November 8 that at present, the industry's 58 transport airlines have nearly 60,000 pilots, and the scale of civil aviation transport ranks second in the world. It has 4,346 transport aircraft, 262 transport airports, and a total airport capacity of 1.6 billion passengers. The annual flight of drones has reached tens of millions of hours. In 2024, the passenger transport volume is expected to exceed 700 million, which will set a record high. Under the trend of large-scale and high-speed development, China's civil aviation safety level ranks among the best in the world, and the ten-year rolling average of the major accident rate per million flight hours is 0.01, which is 1/10 of the global average.
