AIR CHINA
Air China was founded in 1988. According to the Civil Aviation System Reform Program approved by the State Department in October 2002, Air China combined China National Aviation Company and China Southwest Airlines to form China Aviation Group Company. On September 30, 2004, Air China Limited was founded in Beijing by combining the resources of these three companies and was approved by the national assets supervision committee of the State Department as the main air transport company controlled by China Aviation Group.
Air China has a strong domestic and international route and sales network, with the main hub in Beijing. In recent years, Air China has strengthened several of its regional hubs in Chengdu, Shanghai and Guangzhou. In order to strengthen the international route network, Air China has attached great importance on cooperating with foreign airlines and has signed a code sharing agreement with 11 domestic and foreign airlines. (Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines, Finnair, Turkish Airlines, United Airlines, ANA, Dragonair, Macao Airlines, Shandong Airlines and Shanghai Airlines).
Air China offers high quality ground service for 23 foreign airlines and 4 domestic airlines which occupies 65% of ground service at the Beijing Capital Airport. Ground service includes passengers’ arrival and departure services, special passenger services, VIP passenger services, passenger luggage services, flight departure system services, station loading and unloading services, and cabin cleaning services. Ground services offers 3 types of services and 13 service items with over 2900 employees handling the responsibilities. The ground services assets including more than 500 ground equipment and special vehicles are worth 0.2 billion RMB. Air China’s ground service organization is the largest in China civil aviation.
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