The airline is large: tenth biggest in the world, with 293 aircraft, 60 million passengers a year, and snapping on the heels of its competitors China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines in terms of numbers of passengers carried. It serves a vast number of routes from its hub at Beijing, and a smaller hub at Shanghai. Air China will offer nonstop flights from Beijing to Houston in the US using a Boeing 777-300ER aircraft next summer, pending approval from the US Department of Transportation.Īir China is the goliath of airlines operating in the middle Kingdom, a large grandfather carrier still with a full service onboard.
