Starting from a travel agency, Spring International Travel Service, a representative of low-cost airlines, does not participate in the China Civil Aviation Network sales system, and focuses on B2C online sales and mobile phone direct sales as the main sales channels
As one of the first private airlines in China, Spring Airlines Co., Ltd. launched on July 18, 2005, and is one of the earliest and largest low-cost airlines in China, with a fleet of 63 Airbus A320 aircraft.
Spring Airlines draws on the operation models of low-cost airlines such as Southwest America and Ryanair, and adopts the "two highs" (high load factor and high aircraft utilization); "Two orders" (single model, single class); The "two low" (low sales expenses, low management costs) operation model, while ensuring safety, greatly reduces operating costs and fares, and is called "civilian aviation", "people's own airline" and "cost-effective airline" by the majority of passengers and media.
Headquartered in Shanghai, Spring Airlines currently has five domestic bases in Shanghai, including Hongqiao, Pudong, Shenyang, Shijiazhuang and Shenzhen, as well as overseas bases in Osaka, Nagoya, Bangkok, and Jeju in South Korea, and operates more than 70 domestic routes and tourist destinations from Shanghai to Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Jieyang (Shantou), Xiamen, Sanya, Fuzhou, Shenyang, Harbin, Changchun, Dalian, Qingdao, Yinchuan, Mianyang, Shijiazhuang, Kunming, Chongqing, Xi'an, Lanzhou, Urumqi, Hohhot and other cities.
In July 2010, Spring Airlines launched a charter flight between Shanghai Pudong and Ibaraki, marking the first time that a Chinese private airline flew abroad. On September 28, 2010, the Shanghai-Hong Kong route was opened; On April 8, 2011, the Shanghai-Macao route was launched; On August 10, 2012, the Shanghai-Bangkok route was opened, and now it has 75 international and regional routes from Shanghai to Sapporo, Osaka, Ibaraki, Takamatsu, Saga, Asahikawa, Tokyo (Haneda), Nagoya, Seoul and Jeju in South Korea, Hong Kong in China, Macau in China, Kaohsiung in China and Taipei in China.
Spring Airlines is an airline that does not enter TravelSky or go through ticket agents, and uses B2C online sales and mobile phone direct sales as its main sales channels. Spring Airlines is one of the new airlines that has been awarded the "Advanced Safety Unit" award by the Civil Aviation Administration of China since 2004.
Spring Airlines advocates frugal and environmentally friendly travel and lifestyle, and allows passengers to choose all unnecessary services in a simple way, such as a wide variety of in-flight meals, luggage packages that can be selected on the basis of 7 kg of free luggage, a high degree of product combination, from minimalist travel to the best service Business Economy Seat, so that each ticket becomes a work of art designed by passengers, making Spring Airlines' flight unique.
Since its inception, the total average ticket price has been about 40% lower than the market price of the same route, and the profit to passengers has exceeded 20 billion yuan. The total average load factor remained at around 95%, ranking first in the industry in the world.
