Lucky Air ( wh. 祥 鹏 航空公司 ) is a Chinese airline headquartered in the Kunming city district ( Yunnan Province , PRC ) [1] [2] operating in the field of domestic passenger traffic. Subsidiary of the conglomerate HNA Group .
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| Founding date | July 2004 | |||
| Start of activity | February 26, 2006 | |||
| Base airports | Kunming Changshui International Airport | |||
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| Alliance | U-FLY Alliance | |||
| bonus program | Fortune wings club | |||
| Fleet size | 26 | |||
| Destinations | 40 | |||
| Parent company | HNA Group | |||
| Affiliated companies | West air | |||
| Headquarters | Kunming ( Yunnan , PRC ) | |||
| Site | luckyair.net | |||
The carrier's home registry and its main transit hub ( hub ) is Kunming Changshui International Airport [3] .
History
Shilin Airlines was founded in July 2004. A month later, the main carrier Hainan Airlines financed 2.93 million yuan in the interests of the new company and in order to acquire three Fairchild Dornier 328JET planes. In the future, Shanxi Airlines affiliated with the main line invested a total of 47.07 million Yuan. Boeing corporation liners and one de Havilland Canada Dash 8 aircraft were ordered for these funds [4] .
On December 23, 2005, Shilin Airlines changed its official name to Lucky Air, and on February 26 of the following year, it began operations with maintaining a regular route between Kunming and Dali cities.
Lucky Air is owned by Hainan Airlines, being part of the HNA Group conglomerate [3] .
Fleet
In March 2016, the Lucky Air fleet was composed of the following aircraft with an average age of 7 years [5] :
| Aircraft type | In operation | Ordered by | Passenger seats [6] | Notes | ||
| C | Y | Total | ||||
| Airbus A319-100 | 3 | - | ||||
| Airbus A320-200 | four | - | ||||
| Boeing 737-700 | eleven | - | - eight | 148 120 | 148 128 | |
| Boeing 737-800 | eight | - | eight | 156 | 164 | |
| Total | 26 | 0 | ||||
Notes
- ↑ “ 我们 Archived August 25, 2012. . "Lucky Air. Retrieved on August 26, 2012. “昆明市 春城 路 296 号 祥 鹏 航空 大厦”
- ↑ KunMin Office . Hainan Airlines. 10 November 2007. “# 204 Chuncheng Road, Kunming (left to the Honghe Hotel)”
- ↑ 1 2 Directory: World Airlines, Flight International (3 April 2007), p. 107.
- ↑ People's Daily July 29, 2004
- ↑ Archived copy (inaccessible link) . The appeal date is April 17, 2015. Archived April 18, 2015.
- ↑ http://avcom.co.za/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=56880 Comair Aircraft configurations
Links
- luckyair.net - the official site of Lucky Air (whale.)