MEDIA RELEASE PR30272
CA Announces Emergency Plan in Effect After an Earthquake
in Southwest China (Sichuan Province)
BEIJING, May 15 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
A major earthquake hit Wenchuan County, Sichuan
Province at 14:28pm, PEK time on May 12, 2008. Chengdu
Shuangliu (CTU) airport is closed. 12 CA (Chengdu
Airport) flights en route to Chengdu have been diverted
to other airports.
CA announced the emergency plan to be in effect on
15:00pm. All the CA flights in the air are in close
communication with the headquarters. Upon issuing the
release, no casualty and property damage has been
reported at CA southwest subsidiary.
CA has instructed all affected offices to implement
emergency plans and take good care of stranded
passengers. CA also has the fleet on standby for
restoration operations and special tasks.
Meanwhile, Air China continued to enhance capacity
input for disaster relief. On 14 May, Air China allocated
91 flights (16792 seats) for evacuation of stranded
passengers in Chengdu and cancelled 24 normal flights for
urgent disaster relief operations. In addition, as a
result of road damage in Jiuzhaigou and snowfall, a large
number of passengers were stranded. The CTU airport has
reopened for operations now and Air China instantly
prepared 8 flights with 1024 seats to evacuate
passengers. Currently, Air China is on 24-hour duty and
will adjust capacity according to the situation.
SOURCE: Air China
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