Colorful Guizhou Airlines is a low-cost Chinese

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with its headquarters in

Guiyang Guiyang; Mandarin pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, alternatively as Kweiyang is the capital of Guizhou, Guizhou province in China. It is centrally located within the province, on the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau, eastern part of the Yun ...

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, and with its fleet based at

Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport is an international airport serving Guiyang, the capital of Southwest China’s Guizhou province, and the hub for Colorful Guizhou Airlines. The airport was opened on 28 May 1997 and adopted its curr ...

. It is intended to improve air service in

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, particularly Guizhou Province. It is the first locally owned airline in the province."Embraer Inks Agreement with China's Colorful Guizhou Airlines for up to 17 E190s"
(Press release). Paris: Embraer. PR Newswire. 15 June 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2016. The airline commenced flights in December 2015, operating

Embraer 190 The Embraer E-Jet family is a series of four-abreast, narrow-body, short- to medium-range, twin-engined jet airliners designed and produced by Brazilian aerospace manufacturer Embraer. The E-Jet was designed to complement Embraer’s earlier ...

s to destinations throughout the country.

History

On 18 May 2015, the

Civil Aviation Administration of China The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC; ) is the civil aviation authority of the People's Republic of China, under the Ministry of Transport of the People's Republic of China, Ministry of Transport. It oversees civil aviation and inv ...

(CAAC) granted Guizhou Industrial Investment (Group) Co., Ltd. and Weining County Construction Investment Group preliminary approval to jointly establish ''Duocai Guizhou Airlines''. The airline was officially established as ''Colorful Guizhou Airlines'' on 19 June 2015.Ge, Lena (4 January 2016)
"China's Colorful Guizhou Airlines Starts Operations"
'' China Aviation Daily''. Retrieved 15 January 2016. The name "Colorful Guizhou" comes from a marketing campaign by the provincial government; it signifies the cultural diversity within Guizhou Province."Colorful Guizhou Airlines is Embraer’s 5th E-Jet Customer in China"
. ''Embraer''. 15 June 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2016. On 15 June 2015, the airline placed an order for 17

aircraft, 7 of which were firm orders and the other 10 options. If all options are exercised, the transaction will be valued at US$834 million. Colorful Guizhou Airlines hopes to expand its fleet to 30 aircraft by 2020 and 120–140 aircraft in the future."China's Colorful Guizhou Airlines orders 7+10 EMB-190s"
''Ch-aviation''. 15 June 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2016. On 5 December 2015, the airline received its first Embraer 190, followed by a second aircraft on 18 December.Fei, Yu (18 December 2015)

''China Aviation Daily''. Retrieved 15 January 2016. It filed an application for an

air operator's certificate An air operator's certificate (AOC) is the approval granted by a civil aviation authority (CAA) to an aircraft operator to allow it to use aircraft for commercial air transport purposes. This requires the operator to have personnel, assets and s ...

from the CAAC on 15 December. On 31 December 2015, Colorful Guizhou Airlines commenced operations with a flight from its hub

Bijie Bijie ( zh, s=毕节, t=畢節, p=Bìjíe) is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Guizhou Province, China, bordering Sichuan to the north and Yunnan to the west. The Daotianhe Reservoir, located to the north of the town was commissioned in ...

."Colorful Guizhou Airlines begins operations"
''Anna.aero''. 5 January 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2016. It plans to add flights to

Chengdu Chengdu; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, previously Romanization of Chinese, romanized as Chengtu. is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a ...

and

Tongren Tongren ( zh, s=铜仁 , t=銅仁 , p=Tóngrén) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Guizhou province, People's Republic of China, located within a tobacco planting and crop agricultural area. Tongren was known as Tongren Prefecture () until Nov ...

. On 24 October 2019, Colorful Guizhou Airlines received its first

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, which by March 2020 would become a firm two Airbus A320neos in its official fleet.

Corporate affairs

Colorful Guizhou Airlines is a

joint venture A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance. Companies typically pursue joint ventures for one of four reasons: to acce ...

between Guizhou Industrial Investment (Group) Co., Ltd. (95%), and Weining County Construction Investment Group (5%). The groups invested a total of RMB 1 billion in the airline. The chairman of the airline is Zhai Yan, who is also chairman of Guizhou Industrial Investment Group.

Destinations

Colorful Guizhou Airlines flies to the following destinations in China:

Fleet

, the Colorful Guizhou Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft:

References

External links

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