Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
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Yangtze River Airlines, operating initially as Yangtze River Express Airlines the cargo airline in 2002 with headquarters in Shanghai and bases in Shanghai-Pudong and Shenzhen, has been renamed officially as Suparna Airlines on 7 July 2017. It has been operating domestic passenger flights from Shanghai-Pudong, Shenzhen, other Chinese cities and local together with international cargo flights from Shanghai-Pudong since 2015 and has plans to launch international passenger flights in the near future.
The Chinese characters for Suparna Airlines are 金鹏航空 (Jin Peng Hang Kong).
Yangtze River Express Airlines was first renamed as Yangtze River Airlines in 2015 when it started domestic passenger flights from Shanghai-Pudong to Guilin, Sanya and Guiyang on 15 December 2015 with a B737-800 aircraft leased from Hainan Airlines.
Yangtze River Airlines first applied to rename the company from Yangtze River Airlines Company Limited to Suparna Airlines Company Limited with the China Trade Mark Registry on 27 April 2017 before exhibiting for the first time at ITB China 2017 in May. The current commercial name is Suparna Airlines.
Suparna means Garuda in Hindu and Buddhist mythology.
Suparna Airlines aims to provide outstanding passenger and cargo flight services. It will rebrand all its products and entire fleet livery in the coming months through 2018.
Following the renaming, online Chinese messages comment that although Suparna Airlines is an international airline, the Chinese Characters may lead a passenger to regard it as a subsidiary of Shenzhen Airlines as the logo of Shenzhen Airlines is also a garuda.
Suparna Airlines honours tickets that have been issued in the name of Yangtze River Airlines. Its abbreviation code Y8 and commercial motto "Fly For Fun" remain unchanged.
On the domestic front, Suparna Airlines operates a fleet of 6 B737-800 passenger aircraft in China on routes from Zhengzhou to Zhuhai, Ningbo, Dalian, Shanghai-Pudong to Guilin, Guiyang, Sanya, Lianyungang, Harbin, Wenzhou, Shenzhen, and onward routes from Shenzhen to Xichang, Mianyang and other Chinese cities.
Suparna Airlines has been granted CAAC permission to operate passenger flights to Hong Kong, Macau, Taipei and Kaohsiung.
Suparna Airlines' international cargo flights using its fleet of 11 B737-300F, 3 B737-400F and 3 B747-400BDSF freighter aircraft link Shanghai-Pudong with Hong Kong, Changzhou, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Tianjin, Zhengzhou, Prague, Luxembourg, Munich and Novosibirsk. It has plans to launch cargo flights to Los Angeles and Dallas-Fort Worth.
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals
Yangtze River Airlines, operating initially as Yangtze River Express Airlines the cargo airline in 2002 with headquarters in Shanghai and bases in Shanghai-Pudong and Shenzhen, has been renamed officially as Suparna Airlines on 7 July 2017. It has been operating domestic passenger flights from Shanghai-Pudong, Shenzhen, other Chinese cities and local together with international cargo flights from Shanghai-Pudong since 2015 and has plans to launch international passenger flights in the near future.
The Chinese characters for Suparna Airlines are 金鹏航空 (Jin Peng Hang Kong).
Yangtze River Express Airlines was first renamed as Yangtze River Airlines in 2015 when it started domestic passenger flights from Shanghai-Pudong to Guilin, Sanya and Guiyang on 15 December 2015 with a B737-800 aircraft leased from Hainan Airlines.
Yangtze River Airlines first applied to rename the company from Yangtze River Airlines Company Limited to Suparna Airlines Company Limited with the China Trade Mark Registry on 27 April 2017 before exhibiting for the first time at ITB China 2017 in May. The current commercial name is Suparna Airlines.
Suparna means Garuda in Hindu and Buddhist mythology.
Suparna Airlines aims to provide outstanding passenger and cargo flight services. It will rebrand all its products and entire fleet livery in the coming months through 2018.
Following the renaming, online Chinese messages comment that although Suparna Airlines is an international airline, the Chinese Characters may lead a passenger to regard it as a subsidiary of Shenzhen Airlines as the logo of Shenzhen Airlines is also a garuda.
Suparna Airlines honours tickets that have been issued in the name of Yangtze River Airlines. Its abbreviation code Y8 and commercial motto "Fly For Fun" remain unchanged.
On the domestic front, Suparna Airlines operates a fleet of 6 B737-800 passenger aircraft in China on routes from Zhengzhou to Zhuhai, Ningbo, Dalian, Shanghai-Pudong to Guilin, Guiyang, Sanya, Lianyungang, Harbin, Wenzhou, Shenzhen, and onward routes from Shenzhen to Xichang, Mianyang and other Chinese cities.
Suparna Airlines has been granted CAAC permission to operate passenger flights to Hong Kong, Macau, Taipei and Kaohsiung.
Suparna Airlines' international cargo flights using its fleet of 11 B737-300F, 3 B737-400F and 3 B747-400BDSF freighter aircraft link Shanghai-Pudong with Hong Kong, Changzhou, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Tianjin, Zhengzhou, Prague, Luxembourg, Munich and Novosibirsk. It has plans to launch cargo flights to Los Angeles and Dallas-Fort Worth.
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