Dali to Kunming and Xishuangbanna, with plans to expand to other areas of China. Its main base is Kunming Changshui International Airport.^[3] The airline is one of the four founding members of the U-FLY Alliance

History

The airline was established in July 2004 as a start-up airline known as Shilin Airlines. ^[citation needed]

In July 2004 it was reported that Hainan Airlines was investing 2.93 million yuan and providing three Dornier aircraft to the new company. An affiliate of Hainan Airlines, Shanxi Airlines, was investing 47.07 million yuan and providing a Boeing and a de Havilland Canada Dash 8 aircraft and Yunnan Shilin Tourism Aviation Co. would invest 1 million yuan.^[4]

On 23 December 2005, Shilin Airlines changed name to Lucky Air. It started operations with a flight between Kunming and Dali within Yunnan on 26 February 2006.^{[citation needed]}

The airline is owned by Hainan Airlines, Shanxi Airlines and Yunnan Shilin Tourism Aviation. It has 263 employees (at March 2007).^[3]

The airline is one of the four founding memebers of the U-FLY Alliance, which is the world's first alliance of low-cost carriers. It formed in January 2016 by HK Express, Lucky Air, Urumqi Air, and West Air. Lucky intends to deploy 787-9s to Europe and North America by the end of 2016.^[5]

Fleet

The Lucky Air fleet includes the following aircraft as of December 2017:^[6]

**Lucky Air fleet**
Aircraft	Total	Orders	Passengers^[7]			Notes
Aircraft	Total	Orders	C	Y	Total	Notes
Airbus A319-100	3	—	8	120	128
Airbus A320-200	8	—	8	150	158
Airbus A330-300	2	1	32	260	292	2 to be sourced from Hainan Airlines.^[8]
Airbus A330-300	2	1	24	279	303	2 to be sourced from Hainan Airlines.^[8]
Boeing 737-700	12	—	8	120	128
Boeing 737-700	12	—	—	148	148
Boeing 737-800	21	—	8	156	164
Boeing 737 MAX 8	—	4^[9]	TBA			Deliveries from 2018 and 2019.
Total	45	5

References

^ "联系我们 Archived 25 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine." Lucky Air. Retrieved on 26 August 2012. "云南省昆明市春城路296号祥鹏航空大厦"
^ "KunMin Office." [sic] Hainan Airlines. 10 November 2007. "#204 Chuncheng Road, Kunming (left to the Honghe Hotel)"
^ ^a ^b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 3 April 2007. p. 107.
^ People's Daily 29 July 2004
^ [1]
^ "Global Airline Guide 2017 (Part One)". Airliner World (October 2017): 11. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
^ http://avcom.co.za/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=56880 Comair Aircraft configurations
^ https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/picture-lucky-air-receives-first-widebody-in-long-h-435078/
^ https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/57566-chinas-lucky-air-to-add-four-b737-max-8s

External links

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+'''Lucky Air''' ({{zh|s=祥鹏航空公司|p=Xiángpéng Hángkōng Gōngsī}}) is a [[Low cost carrier]] based in the ''Xiángpéng Hángkōng Dàshà'' (S: 祥鹏航空大厦, T: 祥鵬航空大廈) in [[Kunming]], [[Yunnan]], China.<ref>"[http://www.luckyair.net/frontend/information/contractus.jsp 联系我们] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120825065014/http://www.luckyair.net/frontend/information/contractus.jsp |date=25 August 2012 }}." Lucky Air. Retrieved on 26 August 2012. "云南省昆明市春城路296号祥鹏航空大厦"</ref><ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20071110133306/http://www.hnair.com/hnairweben/frame/wfmFrame.aspx?strframeType=3&strframeCode=KunMin KunMin Office]."{{sic}} Hainan Airlines. 10 November 2007. "#204 Chuncheng Road, Kunming (left to the Honghe Hotel)"</ref> The airline operates scheduled services from [[Dali, Yunnan|Dali]] to Kunming and [[Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture|Xishuangbanna]], with plans to expand to other areas of China. Its main base is [[Kunming Changshui International Airport]].<ref name="FI">{{cite news | title= Directory: World Airlines | work=[[Flight International]] | page= 107 | date= 3 April 2007}}</ref> The airline is one of the four founding members of the [[U-FLY Alliance]].
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