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China Eastern Airlines

(中国东方航空公司)

China Eastern Airlines
China Eastern Airlines
中国东方航空公司
China Eastern Airlines is based in Shanghai. It is a member of the SkyTeam alliance, along with China Southern Airlines.
Chairman / President
Yangmin Li
CFO / Finance Director
Qimin Zhou
Industry
Airline
Website
ceair.com
Headquarters Address
Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport Shanghai, China
Stock Code
SSE: 600115
SEHK: 0670
NYSE: CEA
Year Founded
1988
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Alibaba opens Qwen app to partners with China Eastern Airlines tie-up

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‘Not compromising quality’: why China’s C919 is falling behind on deliveries

Deliveries of the home-grown airliner billed to take on US, European competitors have been slow, with just three dispatched in the first quarter.

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Airbus wins Chinese airline’s 101-plane order in victory over Boeing

China Eastern Airlines said it would take delivery of the A320neo aircraft, worth US$15.8 billion, between 2028 and 2032.

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Surging jet fuel prices are pushing airlines – including several Chinese carriers – to raise fares, with a warning of 9 per cent price rises.

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China’s Comac to team up with China Eastern for bigger C919 variant, sources say

Comac’s stretched model, expected to be dubbed the C919-800, could target lucrative Asian routes and seat more than 200 passengers.

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All cancelled flights are operated by Chinese carriers and involve most of the country’s major airlines.

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Foreign ministry says verification process was lawful after traveller claims she was held for 18 hours in Shanghai.

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The incident at a Shanghai airport is testing recently thawed relations between China and India. Photo: Xinhua
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Chinese airlines cancel flights on 12 Japan routes as tensions continue to rise

The carriers had already received refund requests for hundreds of thousands of flight bookings to Japan amid a growing diplomatic row.

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491,000 Japan-bound air tickets cancelled as China warns people to avoid travel

Lost ticket revenue could be in the billions of yuan, analyst says, as carriers brace for short-term capacity shifts if diplomatic tensions fail to ease.

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Engine shortages crimp China’s C919 deliveries amid global aerospace bottleneck

State-owned planemaker deploys teams to CFM – a joint venture between GE and Safran that makes the C919’s Leap-1C engine – as suppliers race to meet demand.

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A model of GE Aerospace’s Leap-1C engine, which is used exclusively to power China’s home-grown Comac C919 aircraft, is displayed at last week’s China International Import Expo in Shanghai. Photo: Frank Chen
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