According to data released by the Civil Aviation Administration of China, there are currently 66 transport airlines in my country, including 13 all-cargo airlines.

          

Because the airlines referred to by the Civil Aviation Administration of China are actually companies with independent legal personality.

          

However, according to Yige statistics, some of the airlines do not have independent carrier qualifications and use the carrier qualifications of the parent company, such as:

Zhuhai Airlines, Guizhou Airlines, Shantou Airlines, Henan Airlines under China Southern Airlines, Wuhan Company, Jiangsu Company under China Eastern Airlines, etc. Although China Eastern Yunnan Company has independent carrier qualifications, they all use the two or three-character codes of China Eastern Airlines.

          

Therefore, from an independent carrier and unified code perspective, there are actually 45 passenger airlines in the country.

          

In addition, there are 13 cargo airlines. Since Youhe Daotong is in bankruptcy and no longer operates, 12 airlines are counted.

          

As a result, there are actually 57 domestic airlines (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan).

              

It should be noted that this is a statistical analysis of individual airlines, divided from the perspective of unified fuselage logos and flight codes used.

          

In fact, from the perspective of the four major aviation groups, such as China Southern Airlines Group, the data includes Xiamen Airlines, Jiangxi Airlines, Hebei Airlines, and Chongqing Airlines. (For data on the fleets of the four major airlines, please see Yi Ge’s previous article)

          

Then let's take a look at the fleet size ranking of these 57 airlines, which is slightly different from the actual situation.

          

No. 1: China Southern Airlines, 683 aircraft, multiple models

          

No. 2: China Eastern Airlines, 625 aircraft, multiple models

          

No. 3: International Airlines, 493 aircraft, multiple models

          

No. 4: Hainan Airlines, 215 aircraft, multiple models

          

No. 5: Shenzhen Airlines, 198, multi-model Air China

          

No. 6: Sichuan Airlines, 194, Airbus fleet, China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, and Shandong Airlines are shareholders

          

No. 7: Xiamen Airlines, 161 aircraft, mainly Boeing fleet, China Southern Airlines Holdings

          

No. 8: Shandong Airlines, 133, Boeing 737, owned by Air China

          

No. 9: Spring Airlines, 124, Airbus 320 fleet

          

No. 10: Tianjin Airlines, 107, Airbus and Embraer models, owned by HNA

          

No. 11: Juneyao Airlines, 94, Airbus 320, Boeing 787 fleet

No. 12: Shanghai Airlines, 86 aircraft, Boeing fleet, wholly-owned subsidiary of China Eastern Airlines

          

No. 13: SF Airlines, 85 aircraft, Boeing fleet, SF Express’s cargo airline, the largest cargo airline in China

          

No. 14: Capital Airlines, 80, Airbus fleet, a subsidiary of HNA

          

No. 15: Chengdu Airlines, 76 aircraft, Airbus and Commercial Aircraft fleet, major shareholder of COMAC, Sichuan Airlines Group's shareholding

          

No. 16: China Airlines, 72, Airbus, Bombardier, Commercial Aircraft fleet

          

No. 17: Loong Airlines, 68 aircraft, mainly Airbus 320

          

No. 18: United Airlines, 57, Boeing 737 fleet, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Eastern Airlines

          

No. 19: Lucky Air, 50 aircraft, multiple models, HNA Holdings

          

No. 20: Tibet Airlines, 42 aircraft, Airbus 320 aircraft, Tibet state-owned assets and Air China’s equity participation

          

No. 21: West Airlines, 39, Airbus 320, HNA Holdings

          

No. 22: Qingdao Airlines, 38 aircraft, Airbus 320 aircraft, Qingdao State-owned Assets Holdings

          

No. 23: Postal Airlines, 36 aircraft, Boeing model, owned by Postal Service

          

No. 24: Hebei Airlines, 32 aircraft, Boeing 737 fleet, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xiamen Airlines

          

No. 25: Kunming Airlines, 31 aircraft, Boeing 737 fleet, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shenzhen Airlines

          

No. 26: Chongqing Airlines, 30 aircraft, Airbus 320 model, China Southern Airlines Holdings    

          

No. 27: Beibu Gulf Airlines, 25, Airbus 320, Embraer E190, HNA Holdings

          

No. 28: Jiuyuan Airlines, 23 aircraft, Boeing 737 fleet, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Juneyao

          

No. 29: Ruili Airlines, 23 aircraft, Boeing 737 fleet, Wuxi State-owned Assets Holdings

          

No. 30: Okay Airways, 22, Boeing 737 fleet, privately owned

          

No. 31: Donghai Airlines, 20 aircraft, Boeing 737 fleet, privately owned

          

No. 32: Colorful Guizhou, 18 aircraft, Airbus 320, Embraer E190, Guizhou state-owned assets

          

No. 33: Urumqi Airlines, 17 aircraft, Boeing 737 fleet, HNA Holdings

          

No. 34: 123 Airlines, 17 aircraft, COMAC ARJ fleet, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Eastern Airlines

          

No. 35: Jinpeng Airlines, 17 aircraft, Boeing fleet, HNA Holdings

          

No. 36: Jiangxi Airlines, 16 aircraft, Boeing 737, COMAC ARJ aircraft, Xiamen Airlines Holdings

          

No. 37: Fuzhou Airlines, 16, Boeing 737, HNA Holdings

          

No. 38: China Cargo Airlines, 16, Boeing 777, China Eastern Airlines Holdings

          

No. 39: Hunan Airlines, 15 aircraft, Hunan State-owned Assets Investment

          

No. 40: YTO Air Cargo, 13 aircraft, Boeing and Commercial Aircraft models

          

No. 41: Changan Airlines, 13, Boeing 737, HNA Holdings    

          

No. 42: Dalian Airlines, 13, Boeing 737, Air China Holdings

          

No. 43: Zhongyuan Longhao, 12, Boeing 737, COMAC ARJ

          

No. 44: Air China Cargo, 12 aircraft, Boeing series, owned by AVIC Group

          

No. 45: Fortune Air, 12 aircraft, Boeing 737, MA-60, Xi’an State-owned Assets

          

No. 46: Zhongzhou Airlines, 11 aircraft, Boeing series, privately owned

          

No. 47: Guilin Airlines, 10, A320

          

No. 48: Longjiang Airlines, 9, Airbus 320, private

          

No. 49: Air China Inner Mongolia, 8, Boeing 737, Air China Holdings

          

No. 50: China Southern Airlines Cargo, 6, Boeing 777, wholly owned by China Southern Airlines

          

No. 51: JD Cargo, 6, Boeing 737, owned by JD.com

          

No. 52: Tianjin Cargo Airlines, 6, Boeing 737, HNA Holdings

          

No. 53: Tianjiao Airlines, 6 aircraft, COMAC ARJ, Inner Mongolia state-owned assets

          

No. 54: Northwest Cargo Airlines, 3 aircraft, Boeing 757, Shaanxi State-owned Assets

          

No. 55: Beijing Airlines, 3, Boeing 737, wholly owned by Air China

          

No. 56: Grand China Airlines, 3 aircraft, Boeing 737, HNA Holdings    

          

No. 57: AVIC Cargo, 1 aircraft, Datong State-owned Assets

The above 57 airlines have a total of more than 4,240 aircraft, which also constitutes the number of aircraft in China’s civil aviation.

          

In fact, the current structure of the civil aviation industry is mainly dominated by the four major aviation groups such as AVIC Group, China Eastern Airlines Group, China Southern Airlines Group, and HNA Aviation Group, plus some local airlines or private airlines such as Sichuan Airlines, Spring Airlines, and Juneyao Airlines, which basically account for It accounts for more than 90% of the market share of China’s civil aviation industry.

          

For example, airlines with less than 20 aircraft have almost no room for development!

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