Inside China's Airline Families – Eyeing Up The Neighbours

OAG’s latest blog series takes a closer look at each of the China’s airline families; China Southern; China Eastern; Air China and HNA Group. We look at the airlines they operate, what drives their strategy and their unique attributes as part of the biggest aviation market in the world.

Up first is a high-level overview of these 4 operations followed by a deeper dive into each group.

Four large airline families dominate China’s aviation industry. Between them they handle almost three quarters of all scheduled aviation capacity and, like busy neighbours, they jostle up against each other at airports across the country.

They have been responsible for adding 57m new seats in the market in the last 12 months, which is nearly two thirds of all capacity growth to and from China.

Each Group has its own unique network profile with different airports performing as hubs or primary  network nodes. The diagram below shows the strength of presence of each of the airline groups at China’s Top 10 airports.

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