Jiangxi Air Co., Ltd. is a Chinese

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with its headquarters at Nanchang Changbei International Airport,

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. It is a

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between

XiamenAir Xiamen Airlines ( ) (branded as XiamenAir), is an airline based in Xiamen, Fujian, China. XiamenAir has its northern headquarters in Beijing and eight branches in Fuzhou, Hangzhou, Tianjin, Hunan, Beijing, Quanzhou, Chongqing and Shanghai, and t ...

and the Jiangxi Provincial Government.

History

On 13 August 2014,

and the Jiangxi Provincial Government signed a memorandum of understanding regarding the establishment of an airline based in the province.Lu, Winnie (15 December 2015)
"Jiangxi Air Unveils Its Logo and Livery, Introduces First B738"
''China Aviation Daily''. Retrieved 17 January 2016. On 17 March 2015, the

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(CAAC) granted Jiangxi Air preliminary approval to begin operations. The airline was granted its

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 ...

on 8 December. On 14 December 2015, Jiangxi Air received its first

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aircraft, from parent

, while unveiling its logo. Its livery consists of a crane, symbolising the environmental beauty of Jiangxi Province; and the colours blue and white, representing the famous

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in the province. On 30 December 2015, the airline conducted its first test flight, from

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Xiamen Xiamen,), also known as Amoy ( ; from the Zhangzhou Hokkien pronunciation, zh, c=, s=, t=, p=, poj=Ē͘-mûi, historically romanized as Amoy, is a sub-provincial city in southeastern Fujian, People's Republic of China, beside the Taiwan Stra ...

. It received its

on 8 January 2016, allowing it to commence commercial flights. Jiangxi Air operated its first flight on 29 January 2016, from

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via

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.Wong, Joy (28 January 2016)
"Chinese Start-up Jiangxi Airlines Gets Its AOC"
''China Aviation Daily''. Retrieved 28 January 2016. It is initially using

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s, maintenance staff, and other staff from XiamenAir.

Corporate affairs

Jiangxi Air is a

between

(60%) and state-owned Jiangxi Aviation Investment Co Ltd (40%). The two organisations have invested ¥2 billion in the airline.

Destinations

As of March 2024, Jiangxi Air flies to the following destinations in China:

Fleet

, Jiangxi Air operates the following aircraft:

References

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