Company OverviewAbout Hainan Airlines Company Limited
Hainan Airlines Company Limited (HNA) is a civil aviation enterprise with both A and B shares issued. The company was established by the restructuring of the former Hainan provincial Airlines Company in January 1993, and started its operation on May 2nd, 1993. The registered capital of the Company is RMB730 million.
Hainan Airlines Company Ltd. is the leading enterprise of the business unit of air transportation of HNA Group. Hainan Airlines is the core enterprise of the Air Transportation Business Unit, and the other subsidiaries under this unit are China Xinhua Airlines, Chang'an Airlines, and Shanxi Airlines.
Up until April 2007, the business unit of air transportation of HNA Group has more than 9,690 employees among whom there are 1530 pilots, 1560 engineers, and 1770 flight attendants. The education background of the employees is composed of 101 postgraduates, 3210 bachelors, and 3330 college students. Up to September 2007, the number of the total fleet in air transportation unit of HNA Group is 129 aircraft, applicable for trunk routes, regional routes and business charter services, among which are 11 Airbus A319, 65 Boeing 737-300/400/700/800s, 3 Boeing 767-300ER, 4 737-300 QC, 2 737-300 all cargos, 29 Dornier 328-300s, 4 Hawker88XPs, 2 GulfstreamIV, 1 Gulfstream200, 1 B747-400 and 7 Y7s.
HNA keeps its continuous, fast and healthy development status during its operation of 13 years with a steady increase trend of its KPI. The total throughput of HNA in 2006 was 2.241 billion ton-kilometers, the cargo and mail volume was 198.7 thousand tons, the passenger throughput reached 14.39 million. All these index of excellent performance helped HNA to be the fourth biggest airlines in China.
HNA has established Beijing, Xi'an, Taiyuan, Urumchi, Guangzhou and Lanzhou as its aviation bases since 1993. 500 routes of HNA radiate out to more than 90 destinations at current stage. The airlines has also served international schedule flights from Beijing to Budapest, from Beijing to Brussels, from Beijing to Osaka, from Beijing to Macao, from Beijing to Novosibirsk, from Beijing to St. Petersburg, from Xi'an to Hongkong, from Urumchi to Astana, from Haikou to Osaka, from Haikou to Bangkok, from Sanya to Seoul.
Hainan Airlines keeps a good safety record during its 14 - year operation of flying over 1.4 million accumulated safe block hours and transporting over 60 million passengers. HNA has achieved the excellent safety operation with zero incidents rate per 10,000 hours. In 2000 and 2003, HNA was awarded the prize by CAAC, the Golden Eagle Cup. In 2001, Xinhua Airlines of HNA was awarded the prize by CAAC, the Golden Eagle Cup. The service of HNA got the public praise of passengers. HNA won the award in the activity of "Passengers Commenting Airlines" for 8 times, and won the first prize in praise of National airlines flights punctuality several times. The punctuality rate of flights keeps above 80% for 7 years. HNA has established an excellent safe and service brand in China. In 2006, HNA logo was evaluated as the Famous Brand by the State Industrial and Commerce Bureau. It is the first and the only one in China Civil Aviation Industry.
HNA has changed the traditional conception that airlines service is only restricted in the cabin. The company showed a brand-new conception "Air Products" for customers, and took the lead in introducing the new service principle of "Whole-course series products and customized service" with the promises to offer customers the "seamless" services. HNA advocates the corporate tenet of Faithfulness, Kindness, Excellence and Perfection and the corporate conception of "To do something for others, to do something for the society, and to do something for oneself". HNA 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.