Recently, the Ministry of Transport, the National Railway Administration, the Civil Aviation Administration of China, the State Post Bureau, and China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. jointly issued the "Innovation Action Plan for Typical Application Scenarios of 'Artificial Intelligence + Transportation'," sounding the rallying call for the intelligent transformation of the civil aviation sector.

The core highlight of this action plan lies in encouraging the civil aviation industry to develop specialized large models for vertical fields. This means that in key business areas such as route planning, flight safety monitoring, flight scheduling, dispatch decision-making, and crew configuration, AI will play a more critical "auxiliary brain" role in the future. By deploying large models, the industry is expected to achieve precise operational forecasting, optimized scheduling decisions, and real-time prevention of safety risks.

In addition to playing a scheduling role behind the scenes, AI will also directly reshape the travel experience of passengers. The plan proposes to create a "multi-dimensional" civil aviation service scenario: from personalized travel services throughout the entire process, to real-time perception and risk warning of the apron situation, and the construction of unmanned smart freight stations, the digital and intelligent capabilities of the civil aviation system will undergo comprehensive upgrading. At the same time, multi-modal biometric recognition and intelligent security inspection technologies will be deeply integrated, building an efficient security identification and baggage matching system from check-in, customs clearance to boarding, making the passenger's waiting and boarding process smoother and more convenient.

In addition, the low-altitude economy has also become a focus of this policy. Under the premise of ensuring aviation safety, relevant departments encourage the exploration of vertical take-off and landing aircraft and drones in practical applications in scenarios such as short-distance transportation and aerial sightseeing. This not only broadens the service boundaries of civil aviation but also marks that the low-altitude transportation service capability will become a new growth point for the future civil aviation industry.

Industry experts point out that with the first batch of key scenarios sorted out by the Ministry of Transport gradually being implemented, the civil aviation industry is now at a critical turning point from past "informationization" to "digital intelligence." By gathering innovative entities and promoting the popularization of intelligent terminals and intelligent agents, the implementation of these application scenarios will inject strong technological power into the high-quality development of civil aviation.