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Shandong Airlines
山东航空集团

IATA SC ICAO CDG Callsign SHANDONG
Founded	1994
Hubs	Jinan Yaoqiang International Airport
Focus cities	Qingdao Liuting International Airport Yantai Laishan International Airport
Fleet size	37 (+4 orders)
Destinations	46
Headquarters	Jinan, Shandong, China
Key people	Sun Yude (President)
Website	http://www.shandongair.com.cn/

Shandong Airlines (Chinese: 山东航空; pinyin: Shāndōng Háng Kōng) is an airline based in Jinan, Shandong, China. It is a provincial carrier operating mainly domestic trunk routes and secondary schedules from Jinan, Qingdao and Yantai to major cities in China.

History

The airline was established in 12 March 1994 and started operations in September 1994. In September 1997 it jointly founded the Xinxing (New Star) Aviation Alliance along with five of China's provincial airlines. It is owned by Air China and has a 10% stake in Sichuan Airlines.

Services

Shandong Airlines operates the following services (at January 2009):

• Domestic scheduled services: Beijing, Changchun, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Fuzhou, Ganzhou, Golmud, Guangzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Haikou, Hangzhou, Harbin, Hefei, Heihe, Hohhot, Hong Kong, Jiayuguan, Jinan, Kunming, Lanzhou, Lianyungang, Linyi, Liuzhou, Mudanjiang, Nanchang, Nanjing, Nanning, Ningbo, Qingdao, Quzhou, Shanghai, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Taiyuan,Tianjin, Urumqi, Wenzhou, Xi'an, Xiamen, Xilinhot, Xining, Yantai and Yinchuan.
• International scheduled destinations: Busan, Daegu, Seoul and Taipei.
• Discontinued its services to: Singapore.
• Planned new destinations: Blagoveschensk, Yakutsk and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk all of which are for May 2009, subject to approval by authorities.

Shandong Airlines Boeing 737 at Kunming Airport.

Fleet

The Shandong Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of 3 May 2009) [1]:

As of May 26, 2009, the average age of the Shandong Airlines fleet is 6 years.

Incidents

On 12 August 2007, Bombardier CRJ-200 had to be pushed by airport workers to safety after severe flooding at Yantai Airport^[1].

See also

• Air China

References

External links

• (English) Shandong Airlines official website
• (Chinese) Shandong Airlines official website

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