Guangxi Beibu Gulf Airlines (), or simply GX Airlines, is a Chinese airline based at

Nanning Wuxu International Airport Nanning Wuxu International Airport is an airport serving Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Autonomous Region, China. It is located south-west of the centre of the city. The airport was built in 1962, with improvements made in 1990. Terminal 2, ...

."Airline Information: GX Airlines"
Ch-aviation. Retrieved 14 December 2015. It is a joint venture between

Tianjin Airlines : ''See Grand China Air for the holding company of Hainan Airlines.'' Tianjin Airlines ( —formerly Grand China Express Air) is a Chinese airline headquartered in Tianjin Binhai International Airport passenger terminal building, Dongli District, ...

and the Guangxi Beibu Gulf Investment Group. GX Airlines commenced operations on 13 February 2015 as one of the first airlines based in

Guangxi Guangxi (; ; alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam ...

History

GX Airlines is a joint venture between

and the Guangxi Beibu Gulf Investment Group. Tianjin Airlines has a 70% (21 billion yuan) stake and the investment group has a 30% (9 billion yuan) stake in the airline. GX Airlines received its first aircraft, an

Embraer 190 The Embraer E-Jet family is a series of four-abreast narrow-body short- to medium-range twin-engine jet airliners designed and produced by the Brazilian aerospace manufacturer Embraer. The E-Jet was designed as a complement to the preceding ...

leased from Tianjin Airlines, and its

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on 1 February 2015."Hainan Airlines' new GX airlines plans flights to Southeast Asia"
''Hainan Airlines via aviator.aero''. 18 May 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2015. The airline conducted its first flight on 13 February of the same year, between its base of

Nanning Nanning (; ; za, Namzningz) is the capital and largest city by population of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in Southern China. It is known as the "Green City" because of its abundance of lush subtropical foliage. Located in the South o ...

and

Haikou Haikou (; ), also spelled as Hoikow is the capital and most populous city of the Chinese province of Hainan. Haikou city is situated on the northern coast of Hainan, by the mouth of the Nandu River. The northern part of the city is on the ...

Hainan Province Hainan (, ; ) is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , the largest and most populous island in China,The island of Taiwan, which is slightly l ...

.Marello, Poppy (27 February 2015)
"Start-Up Carriers: Who's New for February"
''Routes Online''. Retrieved 16 December 2015. In November 2015, GX Airlines inducted its first foreign pilots. As of , the airline has a fleet of eight Embraer 190 aircraft. GX Airlines also plans to begin flights to

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a List of cities in China, city and Special administrative regions of China, special ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no ...

Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...

and destinations in

Northeast The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each sep ...

and

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-eastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of mainland ...

Destinations

GX Airlines Embraer 190LR on finals at Sanya Phoenix International Airport

As of January 2017, GX Airlines flies to 44 destinations in China and also to

Bangkok Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated populati ...

, Thailand.

Fleet

, the GX Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft:

References

External links

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