China Postal Airlines (, T: 中國郵政航空, P: ''Zhōngguó Yóuzhèng Hángkōng'') is a

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based on the 11th through 14th floors of the Ziyu Office Building (S: 紫玉写字楼, T: 紫玉寫字樓, P: ''Zǐyù Xiězìlóu'') in

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. Its main base is

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History

The airline was established on 25 November 1996 and started to operate on 27 February 1997. It is owned by Chinese Postal Bureau (51%) and

China Southern Airlines China Southern Airlines Company Limited is an airline headquartered in Baiyun District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province and is the largest airline in China. Established on 1 July 1988 following the restructuring of the CAAC Airlines that acqu ...

(49%). It was originally set up to operate domestic postal services, but in 2006 introduced international scheduled services to

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and

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the n ...

. From January 2007 international cargo charter services were introduced. In December 2015 it was announced that a total of 7 used Boeing 757 and 10 used Boeing 737 would be acquired from Boeing, being converted to freighters via Boeing's Converted Freighter (BCF) program, to be delivered in 2016 and 2017 to expand the existing fleet.

Destinations

China Postal Airlines operates express mail and cargo transport services mainly for

China Post China Post, legally the China Post Group Corporation ( zh, 中国邮政集团有限公司, Pinyin: ''Zhōngguó yóuzhèng jítuán yǒuxiàn gōngsī''), is the state-owned enterprise operating the official postal service of China, which pr ...

to over 300 domestic destinations, as well as international scheduled and charter services.

Fleet

Current fleet

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, China Postal Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft:

Former fleet

The airline previously operated the following aircraft (as of August 2018): * 1 further Boeing 737-300F * 2 further Boeing 757-200PCF in storage.

References

External links

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