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Scheduled passenger and Cargo operator. 60% owned by Chinese Government and rest publicly held shares since 1997. CEA founded together with China Ocean Shipping all-cargo operator China Cargo Airlines. China northwest and China Yunnan Airlines merged in 2002. Airline is one of the largest in the world with over 30,000 employees. In 2009 airline served Moscow, Frankfurt, London, Paris and Madrid in Europe, Vancouver and Los Angeles in North America and Melbourne and Sydney in Australia. Airline operates dense network to Southeast Asia, South Korea and Japan and New Delhi on its regional network and massive domestic network throughout China. In April 2010 China Eastern joined SkyTeam airline alliance. Also has small Executive Jet division. (A318/EMB135/GlEx700)
founded - demised (age)
June 25 1988 - present (37years)
headquarters
No. 36 Hongxiang 3rd Rd, Shanghai
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current /stored fleet (680)