Thursday 22 November 2018

Beijing Airlines begins scheduled flight operations in Beijing Capital

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                  / KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals


On 22 November 2018, the CA1660 flight of Beijing Airlines Co., Ltd. (Beijing Airlines) arrived safely from Qiqihar Airport to Beijing Capital International Airport, marking the official launch of a new chapter in Beijing Airlines' public aviation operations. Representatives of Beijing Airlines' shareholder units and members of the leadership team attended the scheduled flight opening ceremony.

It is reported that in the "Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement" signed by the China National Aviation Corporation and the Beijing Municipal Government earlier, it has been clarified that Beijing Airlines will develop the public air transport business in a timely manner on the basis of opening up the general air transport business. The “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” period is an important strategic opportunity for the development of the domestic public air transport market. Under the strategic deployment of the coordinated development of the country's Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Beijing-based civil aviation market has been rapidly improved and improved, and has released a huge market demand space, driven by the advantages of Beijing's economic development and unique location.

As an aviation company invested by Air China and Beijing, Beijing Airlines has seized this strategic opportunity to fulfill the requirements of the Beijing Municipal Government and the China Aviation Group Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement. With the assistance and support of all parties, through the unremitting efforts of 9 months, Hundreds of application materials were submitted, 49 kinds of manuals were compiled, more than 100 guarantee agreements were signed, more than 40 deployment coordination meetings were held, and the public air transport enterprises were approved to obtain construction permits, business licenses and operational certifications. certificate. It became the first airline in North China to pass the R5 certification.

Beijing Airlines is carrying out public air transportation business with Beijing Capital International Airport as its operating base. It has successfully completed the transformation of its main business from business aviation operations to the simultaneous operation of business aviation and public aviation, striving to become a new mission and new system to adapt to the new era. New state-owned enterprises with new mechanisms, new ideas, new strategies and new cultures.

In the future, as a subsidiary of Air China, Beijing Airlines will share resources with Air China and develop synergistically. This is the development strategy of Beijing Airlines and the fundamental need of Air China's strategy to build Beijing's international hub. Beijing Airlines will be included in the maintenance and deployment of Air China's operating system in terms of route network, flight schedule, navigation rights use, flight operations and airport resource usage.

Beijing Airlines utliizes three 737-800 aircraft to operate on 8 domestic routes, shares the two-character code CA with Air China, and its three-word code is BJN. Its destinations include Qiqihar, Harbin, Shenyang, Changchun, Mudanjiang, Wulanhaote, Qingdao and Baotou with an average of 730 flights per route per year. It will move its operations to Beijing Daxing once Beijing's second international airport opens in late 2019.

Beijing Airlines will cultivate its own mature operation system, gain better market brand effect, rapidly improve its comprehensive competitiveness, and further provide quality services for the continuously increasing civil aviation market in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

Based on Air China's advanced management philosophy, Beijing Airlines aims to achieve the highest service experience in its aviation field, build a Beijing service brand, improve and strengthen Beijing's air transport industry, enhance Beijing's brand aviation service capabilities, and promote Beijing's economic and social development. 

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