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Hainan Airlines 海南航空公司 Hǎinán Hángkōng Gōngsī
IATA HU	ICAO CHH	Callsign HAINAN
Founded		1989
Hubs		Haikou Meilan International Airport (HAK)
Focus cities		Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) Xi'an Xianyang International Airport (XIY) Taiyuan Wusu Airport (BYN) Urumqi Diwopu International Airport (URC)
Frequent flyer program		Fortune Wings Club
Fleet size		125
Destinations		90
Parent company		Hainan Airlines Ltd.
Headquarters		Haikou, Hainan, People's Republic of China
Key people		Chen Feng (Chairman)
Website: http://www.hnair.com/

Hainan Airlines (Chinese: 海南航空公司; Pinyin: Hǎinán Hángkōng Gōngsī) is an airline based in Haikou, Hainan, People's Republic of China. It is a privately owned airline and the fourth largest airline of China by fleet size. It operates a scheduled domestic services network based in Haikou on the island of Hainan and Ningbo on the mainland. It has begun to add international services. Its main base is Haikou Meilan International Airport, with hubs at Beijing Capital International Airport, Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, Taiyuan Wusu Airport and Urumqi Diwopu International Airport.

Contents 1 History 2 Services 3 Fleet 4 External links 5 References

The airline was established in October 1989 as Hainan Province Airlines. It then renamed as Hainan Airlines and became China's first joint-stock air transport enterprise in January 1993 and began scheduled services on 2 May 1993. Executive jet operations with a Learjet 55 were added in April 1995. In 1998 it became the first Chinese airline to own shares in an airport when it purchased a 25% stake in Haikou Meilan International Airport. Hainan Airlines has 8,000 employees (at January 2005).

It owns stakes in a range of airlines: Shanxi Airlines (92.51%), Chang'an Airlines (73.51%), China Xinhua Airlines (60%), Lucky Air (48.9%), Hong Kong Airlines (45%), Hong Kong Express Airways (45%) and Yangtze River Express (15%).

Hainan Airlines, a Chinese carrier partly owned by US billionaire George Soros, plans to sell and lease back four planes for $US220 million ($280 million) to cut debt. The carrier will sell four Boeing 737-800s to affiliate Changjiang Leasing and then lease them back over six years, from 2008. Hainan will also lease five Fairchild Dornier 328s to its affiliate Grand Xinhua Express Co as well as transferring 230 employees to the smaller airline.

Hainan Airlines will send its application to Oneworld, a worldwide airline alliance, in 2007 with Japan Airlines, the codeshare partner of Hainan Airlines, to be the introducer.

Hainan Airlines operates the following services (as of March 2007):

• Domestic scheduled destinations: Ankang, Beijing, Changchun, Changsha, Chengdu, Chifeng, Chongqing, Dalian, Datong, Dongying, Dunhuang, Enshi, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Haikou, Hailar, Hangzhou, Hanzhong, Harbin, Hefei, Hohhot, Jiamusi, Jinan, Jinjiang, Kashgar(Kashi), Kunming, Lanzhou, Lhasa, Manzhouli, Nanchang, Nanjing, Nanning, Ningbo, Qingdao, Qingyang, Qiqihar, Sanya, Shanghai, Shantou, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan, Tianjin, Ulanhot, Ürümqi, Weifang, Wenzhou, Wuhai, Wuhan, Xi'an, Xiamen, Xining, Xuzhou, Yan'an, Yancheng, Yichang, Yinchuan, Yulin, Zhanjiang, Zhengzhou and Zhuhai.

• International scheduled destinations:
  • From Beijing to Brussels, Budapest, Geneva (Starts in July 2007), Macau SAR, Novosibirsk, Osaka, St.Petersburg (Starts in May 2007),
  • From Haikou to Bangkok, Osaka
  • From Sanya to Seoul
  • From various cities to Hong Kong SAR, Codeshare with Hong Kong Express

The Hainan Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (as of January 2007):

• 11 Airbus A319-100 (plus 20 on order)
• 24 Boeing 737-300
• 10 Boeing 737-400
• 5 Boeing 737-700
• 29 Boeing 737-800 (plus 29 on order)
• 5 Boeing 767-300ER
• 29 Dornier 328-300
• 4 Hawker 800 XP
• 1 Gulfstream IV
• On order: 8 Boeing 787-8

Hainan Airlines has an order for 20 Airbus A319-100 aircraft. It has also finalised an order to purchase 8 Boeing 787 aircraft to be delivered between June 2008 and April 2010^[1]

HNA Group bought 50 ERJ 145s and 50 EMBRAER 190s in total value of the firm aircraft at list price is US$ 2.7 billion. Deliveries will commence in September 2007 for the ERJ 145s. The 50-seat ERJ 145s will be produced by the joint venture Harbin Embraer Aircraft Industry (HEAI), in the city of Harbin, in Heilongjiang Province. For the EMBRAER 190, deliveries are planned to start in December 2007. The 106-seat EMBRAER 190, to be configured for single class service, will be manufactured at the plant of São José dos Campos, Brazil.

The average age of Hainan Airlines fleet is 5.7 years old (as of April 2006)

• Hainan Airlines (in Chinese)
• Hainan Airlines (in English)
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• Hainan Airlines Passenger Opinions

1. ^ Airliner World, November 2005