By the end of September 2007, the Air Transportation business of HNA Group was operating 129 aircrafts, applicable for mainstream routes, regional routes, business charter flight services, cargo services and general aviation services. Among these aircrafts are 11 Airbus A319, 66 Boeing 737-300/400/700/800s, 3 Boeing 767-300 ER, 4 737-300 QC and 2 737-300 cargo aircrafts, 29 Dornier 328-300s regional aircrafts, 4 Hawker 800XP, 3 Gulfstream IV and 1 Gulfstream 200 Business jets, 1 Boeing 747-400 and 5 Y7s. The Air Transportation business of HNA Group had 9,690 employees by the end of 2006, among whom there were 1530 pilots, 1770 flight attendants and 1560 mechanics. The education background of the employees was composed of 100 masters, 3210 bachelors and 3330 college graduates.

Hainan Airlines Company Ltd. is the leading company in the air transportation business of HNA Group, and other subsidiaries are China Xinhua Airlines, Chang'an Airlines and Shanxi Airlines. These airlines are integrated with the unique code "HU" since 2002.

Hainan Airlines Company Ltd. HNA was established by the restructuring of the former Hainan provincial Airlines Company, which was founded in January 1993-. The company is the first both A shares and B Shares issued company of the Chinese civil aviation industry. HNA started its operation on 2nd May 1993, and kept its continuous rapid and healthy developing trend in the following 14 years. In year 2006, the total transportation throughput of the company was 2.241 billion ton-kilometers, the volume of mail and cargo was 198.7 thousand tons, the passenger throughput reached 14.39 million. All these operating index helped the company to become the fourth ranked airline in China by scale. Hainan Airlines has established 6 aviation bases in Beijing, Xi'an, Taiyuan, Urumchi, Guangzhou and Lanzhou, and has constructed a national distributed flights network since 1993. The company has more than 500 domestic and international routes, 90 destination cities, and serves international schedule and charter flights from Beijing to Budapest, Brussels, Osaka, Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg, from Xi'an to Hongkong, from Urumchi to Astana, from Haikou to Bangkok, from Sanya to Seoul etc.

Hainan Airlines keeps a good safety record during its 14 years operation with over 1.7 million accumulated safe block hours by transporting more than 60 million passengers. In 2006, Hainan Airlines was awarded the prize of "Golden Eagle Cup" and "Golden Award of Passengers Satisfaction Service" by CAAC, Which represent the top level of safe operation and excellent service. It also won the award in the activity of "Passengers Commenting Airlines" for 8 consecutive years, and won the first prize of "National flights punctuality" for 7 times with above 80% punctuality rate of flights. The company has established an excellent safety and service brand in China. In year 2006, the logo of Hainan Airlines was evaluated the famous brand by the State Industrial and Commerce Bureau. It is the unique case of China Civil Aviation Industry by now. Hainan Airlines has changed the traditional conception that airlines' service is restricted in the cabin and put forward a brand-new conception of "Air products", by introducing the "Whole-course series products and customized service" with the promises to offer customers the "seamless" services. Hainan Airlines advocates the corporate tenet of "Integrity, Performance, Innovation", adheres to the corporate culture of "Internally cultivating the spirit with the essence of the traditional Chinese culture, externally combining the advanced western management and technology" . The company is doing its best to reach its goals of being the first choice of airline for passengers and being one of the world's famous brands as a Chinese company in the future.