Beijing Capital Airlines
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Founded | 1995 | ||||||
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Fleet size | 23 | ||||||
Website | www.deerjet.com/ |
Beijing Capital Airlines (Chinese: 金鹿航空; pinyin: Jīnlù hángkōng) was established in 1995 as one of the subsidiaries of Hainan Airlines group, the 4th largest airline in China. It was formerly known as Deer Jet/Airlines.
In 1998, Deer Jet began offering international services. In October 2007, Deer Jet received their first A319 and began returning all their Boeing 737s. Deer Jet began providing charter services in December 2008 using a fleet of Airbus 319 and corporate jets. Deer Jet received authorization by the Chinese Government to operate scheduled air services beginning in 2009.
Deer Jet/Airlines was divided into two airlines on May 4, 2010. While the charter operation has kept the Deer Jet branding, scheduled operations using A319's were renamed Capital Airlines[1][2][3]
Fleet
Beijing Capital Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of May 25th, 2010):
- 24 Airbus A319-100 10 additional aircraft to be delivered in 2010
Deer Jet Aircraft
- 4 Hawker 800,2 Hawker 850XP,1 Hawker 900XP
- 4 Gulfstream G200
- 4 Gulfstream IV including a G-IV-SP(Reg:B8088)
- 1 Gulfstream V
Deer Jet announced that the passenger airline division had been renamed Beijing Capital Airlines during a media conference at EBACE 2010 on 3 May 2010.