XiamenAir

XiamenAir
厦门航空
IATA ICAO Call sign
MF CXA XIAMEN AIR
FoundedJuly 25, 1984; 40 years ago (1984-07-25)
Hubs
Secondary hubs
Focus cities
Frequent-flyer programEgret Miles
AllianceSkyTeam[2]
Subsidiaries
Fleet size172
Destinations99[3]
Parent companyChina Southern Airlines (51%)
Headquarters22 Dailiao Road, Xiamen, Fujian[4]
Key peopleXie Bing (President & CEO)
Zhao Dong (Chairman)
Websitewww.xiamenair.com

Xiamen Air (/ʃ(j)ɑːˈmɛn/ sh(y)ah-MEN), also known as Xiamen Airlines, is an airline based in Xiamen, Fujian, China. Xiamen Air has its northern headquarters in Beijing and eight branches in Fuzhou, Hangzhou, Tianjin, Hunan, Beijing, Quanzhou, Chongqing and Shanghai, and two subsidiaries in Hebei Airlines (99.47% shareholding) and Jiangxi Airlines (60% shareholding, based on the former Xiamen Airlines Nanchang Branch). Founded on July 25, 1984, Xiamen Airlines is the first airline in China to operate independently as an enterprise. It was established as a joint venture between the Shanghai Administration of Civil Aviation Administration of China, Xiamen Special Economic Zone Construction Development Company (now Xiamen C&D Group) and Fujian Investment Enterprise Company. The shareholders are China Southern Airlines Corporation (55%), Xiamen C&D Group (34%) and Fujian Investment and Development Group (11%). The current chairman of Xiamen Airlines is Zhao Dong and the general manager is Wang Zhixue.[5][6]

A Xiamen Airlines, Boeing 787-8 B-2761 NRT

Xiamen Airlines operates more than 320 domestic and international routes from Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport, Beijing Daxing International Airport, Fuzhou Changle International Airport and Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, with 3,500 to 4,000 flights per week and carries nearly 25 million passengers per year. Xiamen Airlines' logo is "A Heron Flying High", a well-known trademark in China, and its frequent flyer program is the Xiamen Airlines White Egret Frequent Flyer Program. The airline features in-flight announcements in Mandarin and English, but also in Minnan, which are broadcast by Xia Hui, a former broadcaster for the Central People's Radio station and Xiamen Broadcasting Company.[7][8]

Xiamen Airlines is the 19th member of the international airline alliance SkyTeam and the first airline in mainland China to join one of the world's three major airline alliances other than the three major state-owned airlines (including China Southern, which withdrew from SkyTeam on January 1, 2019) and Shanghai Airlines, which joined the alliance as an affiliate member, and the fourth full member of SkyTeam in Greater China (the first three being China Southern, China Eastern, and China Airlines, of which China Southern withdrew from the alliance on January 1, 2019).[9][10]

XiamenAir
Simplified Chinese厦门航空
Traditional Chinese廈門航空
Hanyu PinyinXiàmén Hángkōng
Literal meaningXiamen Airlines
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXiàmén Hángkōng
Southern Min
Hokkien POJE-mng Hang-khong
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  2. ^ SkyTeam (November 17, 2011). "Xiamen Airlines Joins SkyTeam" (Press release). Retrieved July 10, 2015.
  3. ^ "Xiamen Airlines on ch-aviation.com". ch-aviation.com. Retrieved November 21, 2023.
  4. ^ "Airline Membership". IATA. Archived from the original on July 11, 2015.
  5. ^ "厦门航空有限公司最新校园招聘信息-智联招聘官网". xiaoyuan.zhaopin.com. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
  6. ^ "民航休闲小站". www.xmyzl.com. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
  7. ^ "精彩回顾 ▏ 闽南方言夏令营". 思明图书馆. 搜狐网. August 27, 2019. Archived from the original on September 28, 2021. Retrieved September 28, 2021. 本馆特邀多次为厦门航空、厦门机场、厦门地铁、邮轮等作闽南话播报的蔡慧老师为大家带来精品闽南方言课程
  8. ^ 厦门网 (August 9, 2016). "资深闽南话播音员蔡慧做客"百家村之声"网络电台 常坐厦航定听过她声音". 搜狐网. Archived from the original on March 12, 2022. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
  9. ^ "SkyTeam Welcomes Xiamen Airlines". www.skyteam.com. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
  10. ^ "China Southern Airlines officially leaves SkyTeam". ch-aviation. Retrieved January 16, 2023.