Air China Limited (中国国际航空公司) is the flag carrier of the People's Republic of China and one of the "Big Three" mainland Chinese airlines. Air China's headquarters are in Shunyi District, Beijing. Air China's flight operations are based primarily at Beijing Capital International Airport. In 2017, the airline carried 102 million domestic and international passengers with an average load factor of 81%. The airline joined Star Alliance in 2007.
Tianjin Binhai International Airport, originally Tianjin Zhangguizhuang Airport is an international airport serving Tianjin, the municipality in North China. It is one of the major air cargo centers in the People's Republic of China.
Sichuan Airlines Co., Ltd. is a Chinese airline based in Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport in Chengdu, Sichuan, and is the largest airline in western China, operating mainly scheduled domestic and international flights out of Chengdu Shuangliu Airport, Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport and Kunming Changshui International Airport. Sichuan Airlines is also the first airline in mainland China to operate Airbus A320 and the first batch of airlines in mainland China to receive Airbus A350.
China Southwest Airlines (中国西南航空公司) was a civil airline headquartered in Shuangliu, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, from 1987 to 2002. It was merged into Air China in October 2002.
Changsha Huanghua International Airport is an international airport serving Changsha, the capital of South Central China’s Hunan province, and the Greater Changsha Metropolitan Region comprising the nearby cities of Zhuzhou and Xiangtan.
Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport is one of two international airports serving Chengdu, the capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province, the other one being Chengdu Tianfu International Airport (TFU). It mainly serves domestic flights around China.
Chengdu Airlines Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Sichuan Airlines, is an airline headquartered in Shuangliu District, Chengdu, China. It operates a network of scheduled domestic passenger flights out of its hub at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport. Chengdu Airlines is also the first user of ARJ21.
Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, also known as Jiangbei Airport, is the main international airport serving Chongqing, the municipality in Southwest China. Located about 19 kilometres (12 mi) north of the urban center of Chongqing, it was the second-busiest airport in Mainland China by passenger traffic in 2022. Jiangbei Airport was awarded the best airport in its size category by Airports Council International in 2017 and again in 2018. The airport's IATA airport code, CKG, is derived from the former romanized spelling of the city, Chungking.
Xichang Qingshan Airport is an airport serving Xichang, the seat of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province, China. The airport started an expansion project in February 2010.
Harbin Taiping International Airport is an international airport serving Harbin, the capital of Northeast China’s Heilongjiang province. The airport handled 20,431,432 passengers in 2018, making it the 20th busiest airport in mainland China.
Lhasa Gonggar Airport is the airport serving Lhasa, the capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. It is about 97 kilometres (60 mi) to Lhasa and about 62 kilometres (39 mi) southwest of the city in Gyazhugling, Gonggar County of Shannan.
Tianjin Airlines is a Chinese airline headquartered in Tianjin Binhai International Airport passenger terminal building, Dongli District, Tianjin, operating domestic scheduled passenger and cargo flights out of Tianjin Binhai International Airport.
Beijing Capital Airlines, commonly known as Capital Airlines, is a Chinese low-cost airline based at Beijing Daxing International Airport. It is a subsidiary of Hainan Airlines.
Zhejiang Loong Airlines Co. Ltd, branded as Loong Air (长龙航空) and previously as CDI Cargo (长龙国际货运航空公司), is a Chinese airline based in Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
Chengdu Tianfu International Airport is one of two international airports serving Chengdu, the capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province, the other one being Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU).
The Lhasa Airport Expressway, officially the Lhasa to Gonggar Airport Expressway, also shortened to the Lagong Expressway is an expressway that links Lhasa Gonggar Airport to the city center of Lhasa, the capital of the autonomous region of Tibet, China. The expressway is designated as S1, however this designation is unsigned, and signposts on the expressway simply refer to it as the Airport Expressway.
Sichuan Airlines Flight 8633 was a flight from Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport to Lhasa Gonggar Airport on 14 May 2018, which was forced to make an emergency landing at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport after the cockpit windshield failed. The aircraft involved was an Airbus A319-100. The incident was adapted into the 2019 film The Captain and was also featured in the documentary series Mayday.
The G4218 Ya'an-Yecheng Expressway, commonly referred to as the Yaye Expressway, is an expressway that will traverse the entirety of Tibet and link Ya'an in Sichuan to Yecheng in Xinjiang.
Tibet Airlines Flight 9833 was a scheduled commercial passenger flight in China from Chongqing to Nyingchi by Tibet Airlines. On 12 May 2022, the A319-100 aircraft operating the service suffered a runway excursion, causing both engines to separate, followed by a fire near the front of the aircraft. 36 people were injured during the evacuation.
Guoguo is a Chinese politician of Tibetan ethnicity. He served as mayor of Lhasa between October 2016 and December 2022. He is deputy director of the Market Supervision Bureau of Tibet Autonomous Region as of February 2023.
