[bulletin of the Civil Aviation Administration: loss of 217.44 billion yuan for the whole industry last year] the Civil Aviation Administration issued a statistical bulletin on the development of the civil aviation industry in 2022. According to preliminary statistics, in 2022, the industry achieved a cumulative operating income of 632.89 billion yuan, down 15.8 percent from the previous year, and a loss of 217.44 billion yuan, an increase of 137.46 billion yuan over the previous year. Of this total, the airline achieved an operating income of 336.48 billion yuan, down about 20 percent from the previous year, and a loss of 177.12 billion yuan, an increase of 114.34 billion yuan over the previous year. The operating income of the airport was 77.01 billion yuan, down 18.5 percent from the previous year, and the loss was 47.62 billion yuan, an increase of 22.8 billion yuan over the previous year. The operating income of the guaranteed enterprises was 219.4 billion yuan, down 6.2 percent from the previous year, and the total profit was 7.3 billion yuan, a decrease of 320 million yuan over the previous year. In 2022, the national civil aviation transportation airport handled 520 million passengers, a decrease of 42.7 percent over the previous year.