33. Air China

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AirChina is an airline from Beijing, China. They were founded in 1988 from the collapse of CAAC. The Airline is based in Beijing with their home airport being the airport in Beijing. AirChina is part of the Star Alliance and their callsign is AIR CHINA. Their current fleet consists of 494 Planes with 182 orders. As of April 2024 they are one of the few airlines that still fly Boeing 747s in Passenger service. In terms of passenger capacity, their biggest plane is the Boeing 747-8, the smallest the Comac ARJ21-700. 

Planes currently operated by Air China

30x Airbus A319-100s (one inactive)

38x Airbus A320-200s (one inactive)

53x Airbus A320neos (20 inactive, 8 ordered)

61x Airbus A321-200s (one inactive)

30x Airbus A321neos (8 inactive, 45 ordered)

20x Airbus A330-200s (2 inactive)

28x Airbus A330-300s (one inactive)

30x Airbus A350-900s (one inactive)

18x Boeing 737-700s (2 inactive)

88x Boeing 737-800s (5 inactive)

21x Boeing 737 MAX 8s (one inactive, 17 ordered)

3x Boeing 747-400s (one inactive)

7x Boeing 747-8s (4 inactive, one operates for chinese government

28x Boeing 777-300ERs (one inactive)

14x Boeing 787-9s (2 inactive, 1 ordered)

25x Comac ARJ21-700s (4 inactive, 10 ordered)

0x Comac C919s (100 ordered, delivery 2024 to 2031)

Special Liveries

3x Airbus A321-200s:

B-6361 in „Beautiful Sichuan" Special Livery

B-6365 in „Beautiful Sichuan II" Special Livery

B-6383 in „Star Alliance" Special Livery

3x Airbus A330-200s:

B-6091 in „Star Alliance" Special Livery

B-6093 in „Star Alliance" Special Livery

B-6071 in „Jinli" Special Livery

1x Airbus A330-300:

B-5977 in „50th A330 for Air China" Special Livery

1x Airbus A350-900:

B-308M in „Star Alliance" Special Livery

2x Boeing 737-700s:

B-5211 in „Pink Peony" Special Livery

B-5214 in „Pink Peony" Special Livery

5x Boeing 737-800s:

B-5198 in „Yellow Peony" Special Livery

B-5390 in „Gold Peony" Special Livery

B-5422 in „Phoenix" Special Livery

B-5425 in „Star Alliance" Special Livery

B-5497 in „Star Alliance" Special Livery

3x Boeing 777-300ERs:

B-2006 in „Love China" Special Livery

B-2032 in „Star Alliance" Special Livery

B-2047 in „50 Years of Chinese-French Diplomatic Relations" Special Livery

Former Aircraft Operated by Air China

Airbus A300

Airbus A310

Airbus A340-300

Antonov AN-2

Antonov AN-12

Antonov AN-24

Antonov AN-26

Antonov AN-30

BAe 146

Boeing 707

Boeing 737-200/-300

Boeing 747-200/SP

Boeing 757-200

Boeing 767-200ER/-300

Convair CV-240

DeHavilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter

Douglas DC-9/MD-80

Hawker Siddeley Trident

Iljushin Il-14

Iljushin Il-18

Iljushin Il-62

Lisunov Li-2

Short 360

Tupolev Tu-154

Vickers Viscount

Xian Y-7


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