Since we’re on airlines 😀
The Lucky Air jetliner (737) in the F-7BG pictures is a subsidiary of the Hainan Airline which operates mainly out of Hainan Island which is China’s resort destination. (Hainan is also home base to several of the South Seas Fleet PLANAF air stations. The EP3/J8II incident ended on a naval air station on Hainan.)
So we’re on airlines~ 😉
The Lucky Air just started operation this year.
China’s budget carrier Lucky Air to launch maiden flight before end of month
9 January 2006
BEIJING (AFX) – Hainan Airlines (SHA 600221; SHB 900945), in which US-financier George Soros holds an indirect stake, said its subsidiary Lucky Air Co Ltd is expected to launch its maiden flight before the end of January.
In a report on its website, Hainan Airlines cited Lucky Air chief executive Ma Guohua as saying the newly formed carrier will become ‘a real budget carrier operating regional routes at low cost’.
China’s fourth-largest airline Hainan Airlines owns a 67.95 pct stake in Lucky Air, which is based in Dali Airport in the southern province of Yunnan.
George Soros holds an indirect stake in Hainan Air through his investment vehicle American Aviation.
Lucky Air has received approval to lease three B737s from Hainan Airlines’ unit Shanxi Airlines for its operations.
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