Traveling to the airport shouldn't take longer than the flight itself, suggested Wang Yu, Chairman of Spring Airlines.

IT Home March 11 News, according to Cover News on March 10, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and Chairman of Spring Airlines Wang Yu said in an interview that the “Green Airport Evaluation Guidelines” formulated in 2023 set a series of detailed technical indicators, establishing a standard framework for China’s green airport construction. However, the newly released “Green Airport Evaluation Guidelines” and “Transport Airport Master Plan Specifications” are not rigid constraint documents. The current rigid constraint document, “Civil Airport Engineering Project Construction Standards,” was issued in 2008, making it relatively outdated. Its requirements regarding green and efficient aspects are not yet comprehensive.

Wang Yu mentioned: “There is a lack of consideration for the very important functional positioning in airport planning, which leads to situations where the check-in and boarding times at some airports, as well as ground transportation times in the city, can even exceed the flight duration.”

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Wang Yu suggested that the current “Transport Airport Master Plan Specifications” be set as a rigid constraint document, and that the core indicators from the “Green Airport Evaluation Guidelines” be incorporated into the standards, especially to improve standards in terms of facilitating passenger travel, boosting economic growth, reducing operating costs, and increasing operational efficiency. For example, reasonably controlling the distance between airports and cities, planning the maximum walking distance for passengers within terminals, designing reasonable passenger security check time indicators, and incorporating the effectiveness of green airport construction into the assessment system for local governments and airport management agencies.

IT Home learned from the “Green Airport Evaluation Guidelines” that the document requires airport site selection to comply with the land and space planning of the airport’s location, meeting the requirements of “safety first, resource conservation, environmental friendliness, and efficiency priority,” and that the site conditions should meet the needs of near- and long-term airport development.

The document mentions the scoring rules for the distance between the airport and the city center and the shortest public transportation access time to the city center. For large and super-large airports, if the distance to the city center is less than or equal to 30 km and the shortest public transportation access time is less than or equal to 30 minutes, a full score of 12 points can be awarded.

If large and super-large airports serve two or more cities, the full score standards can be appropriately relaxed.