Xiamen Airlines Co., Ltd., one of the top ten airlines, was established in 1984, mainly engaged in domestic air passenger and cargo transportation business, using all-Boeing series aircraft, and is the first airline in China to operate according to the modern enterprise system
Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Xiamen, Fujian Province, on the southeast coast of China, Xiamen Airlines is the first airline in China to operate under a modern corporate system. After 33 years of continuous development, Xiamen Airlines has now become the most distinctive airline in China's civil aviation, and has been praised by General Secretary Xi Jinping as "the epitome of the development of China's aviation industry".
Xiamen Airlines operates China's largest pure-play Boeing fleet, with 148 aircraft as of February 2017, making it one of the youngest fleets in the world. With the successive opening of intercontinental routes such as Melbourne, Vancouver and Seattle, the route network has achieved full coverage of Europe, the Americas and Oceania, and extended the route network to the world with the help of SkyTeam.
Xiamen Airlines is the longest-running airline in China's civil aviation industry, the only one in China that has been profitable for 30 consecutive years. Ranked first among Chinese airlines in the global airline financial rating. Xiamen Airlines now has total assets of 40 billion yuan, net assets of 16 billion yuan, asset-liability ratio of 60%, and since 2009, it has achieved a cumulative operating income of 90 billion yuan and a profit of 9.7 billion yuan. Among the more than 240 member airlines of IATA, Xiamen Airlines ranks among the top 20 in terms of total profit and top 10 in terms of revenue margin.
Over the years, Xiamen Airlines has made unremitting efforts to ensure aviation safety and improve service quality, and has accumulated more than 3.5 million hours of safe flights, and has been rated as the "Best Airline" in air service by Chinese passengers for three consecutive years from 2012 to 2015. In March 2016, Xiamen Airlines won the 2nd China Quality Award, becoming the first enterprise in China's service industry to receive this honor, and the only airline in China's civil aviation industry to receive the award.
In the future, Xiamen Airlines will continue to devote itself to fulfilling the mission of "moving customers, achieving employees, and giving back to society", while maintaining its existing advantages, it will focus on transformation and innovation, extend the air travel service chain, expand the mass customer base, build a regional hub network, accelerate the coverage of intercontinental route network, build an international, networked and modern aviation group, provide customers with a wonderful travel experience, and truly realize the corporate vision of "unique characteristics, customer first-choice, first-class in the Asia-Pacific region".
