China Xinhua Airlines

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China Xinhua Airlines
中国新华航空
IATA
XW
ICAO
CXH
Callsign
XINHUA
Founded 1992
Fleet size 16
Destinations
Headquarters Haikou
Key people
Website: http://www.chinaxinhuaair.com

China Xinhua Airlines (Chinese: 中国新华航空) is an airline based in Beijing, People's Republic of China. It operates scheduled trunk services and charter flights. Its main bases are Beijing Capital International Airport and Tianjin Binhai International Airport[1].

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[edit] History

The airline was established in August 1992 and started operations on 6 June 1993. In April 1997 it became a partner in the creation of Oriental Falcon Jet Service, with Dassault Falcon Jet and Avion Pacific to operate Falcon 50 charter operations in China. It is a subsidiary of Hainan Airlines which holds a 60% stake in the airline[1]. The relative bases of operation have been regulated in international airports which understood them and the international airport of Tianjin Binhai, principally taking care itself of the domestic passenger and the transport of cargo. In the month of February of 2001, it has been re-united from the group of the Shenhua and from the group of HNA and it has been transformed in a main enterprise in the group of the transport of the HNA Air. Before the union, the overhead management of Xinhua has installed a nearly complete system of the flight transport, the maintenance, the sale, air, and the administration of service, control and emergency of the earth and the good obtained performances, maintain an annotation of no accidental incidents for 8 years.

[edit] Fleet

A China Xinhua Airlines Boeing 737 at Wuhan Airport.
A China Xinhua Airlines Boeing 737 at Wuhan Airport.
Boeing 737-800
Boeing 737-800

As of May 2007, the China Xinhua Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft:[2]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-04-03, p. 65. 
  2. ^ Aerotransport.org China Xinhua Airlines fleet details