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Sichuan Airlines is a regional airline headquartered at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport in Chengdu, Sichuan in China. Sichuan Airlines destinations now include Anhui, Beijing, Chongqing, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Taipei, Kathmandu, Male, Taiwan, Dubai, Jakarta, Singapore, Bangkok, Moscow, Melbourne and New Zealand, Sydney and many others. Sichuan Airlines operates mainly scheduled domestic flights out of Chengdu Shuangliu Airport and Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport. As of July 2016, Sichuan Airline's fleet in total is a size of 109 aircraft. Currently operating using the very favoured A319-100, A320, A321 and A330 aircraft, Sichuan Airlines aircraft can accommodate anywhere between 132 and 301 passengers.
Established on 19 September 1986, with operations starting 14 July 1988 between Chengdu and Wanzhou. In August 2002 it was reorganised and the Sichuan Airlines Group, which is owned by the provincial government, became the major shareholder (40%). The other shareholders are China Southern Airlines (39%), Shandong Airlines (10%), Shanghai Airlines (10%) and Gingko Restaurant Co.(1%). The airline launched its first long-haul overseas route in June 2012 with flights from its Chengdu hub to Vancouver, Canada. Its second long-haul flight, from Chengdu to Melbourne, Australia, was launched in February 2013 with three weekly services. On October 17, 2016 the airline launched twice-a-week service from Chengdu via Hangzhou to Los Angeles.
In November 2016 Sichuan Airlines announced it will launch a non-stop flight between Chengdu and Dubai and that they were expecting to receive their first A350-900 aircraft. This comes as part of a leasing agreement signed between the Chinese carrier and AerCap for three A350-900 aircraft.The new Airbus A350-900 can accommodate up to 325 passengers in a standard 3 class configuration. Commencing on 14th December 2016, the new international service will operated twice a week, departing the Sichuan provincial capital on Wednesdays and Saturdays, with the return flights respectively returning the next day. It is believed that Sichuan Airlines will operate using their Airbus A330 aircraft offering a total of 245 seats in all cabins.
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Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport
Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport is the major international airport serving Chengdu, the capital of China's Sichuan Province. Shuangliu International Airport is the hub airport for Sichuan Airlines as well as Chengdu Airlines. The airport has two runways and can handle nearly 40 million passengers.
Other airlines which fly to and from Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport include AirAsia, Air China, Air Maca, Asiana Airlines, Beijing Capital Airlines, British Airways, China United Airlines, Hainan Airlines, EVA Air, China Express Airlines, Juneyao Airlines, KLM, Kunming Airlines, Loong Air, Shanghai Airlines and Ruili Airlines many others.
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The Chengdu-based carrier plans to launch the service 17th December with 2 x weekly flights operated by an A350-900, which iwill be delivered soon. Sichuan is expected to introduce 4 A350-900 aircraft, configured with 28 business - and 303 economy-class seats, in 2019. The airline secured clearance from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) for the new service 25th December 2017.
The airline plans to transport 55,608 passengers on this new service with an average load factor of 75%.
In 2017, Sichuan Airlines reportedly transported 24,000 passengers on the Hangzhou-Los Angeles route and 28,000 passengers on Jinan-Los Angeles route. The average load factor on these 2 routes was less than 60%.
In 2014, Hainan Airlines opened Beijing-Boston service and launched Shanghai-Boston service in 2015. In 2017, Hainan Airlines carried 160,100 passengers on its Beijing-Boston route with an average load factor of 78%, and transported 61,000 passengers on the Shanghai-Boston route with an average load factor of 74.7%.
According to the ch-aviation schedule module, the airport will be served by Sichuan Airlines (3U, Chengdu) with 4x weekly service to Chengdu, operated with A319-100 equipment.
The suspension of the service followed an earthquake which caused devastation in parts of the Sichuan province in August 2017. While the airport itself was not destroyed, the neighbouring National Park, the main tourist attraction in the area, was closed until a partial re-opening in early March 2018.
For the time being, no other carrier announced service to Jiuzhaigau airport.
Sichuan Airlines has secured approval to use fifth freedom rights to extend a route from Chengdu, China to Prague, Czech Republic and onto Zurich, Switzerland beginning June 23.
The new twice-weekly Chengdu-Prague-Zurich Airbus A330 service is expected to become the first fifth freedom flight from Chengdu to transport passengers to a third country.
Currently, the domestic regional carrier operates international services that include twice-weekly Chengdu-Prague service and two European routes to Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Sichuan Airlines chairman Li Haiying had previously said the carrier planned to open five international routes this year—all originating from Chengdu—to Copenhagen, Boston, Cairo and Tel Aviv, in addition to Zurich.
Sichuan Airlines operates a fleet of 132 aircraft on more than 270 routes. The carrier uses 11 Airbus A330s on 48 international routes.
Last year, the airline leased four Airbus A350s and ordered 10 A350s in February, which are scheduled to be delivered from May to facilitate the international expansion.
