China Southern Airlines, the ninth-largest airline in the world
and the largest airline in China, has been honored with the
Four-Star Flight Safety Award by the Civil Aviation Administration
of China, the CAAC.
“Currently the most prestigious safety award in the Chinese
aviation industry, China Southern, as of May 20 this year, has
safely flown four million hours, becoming the only Chinese carrier
maintaining the longest safety record,” said CAAC minister Yang
Yuan Yuan.
In accordance with the CAAC regulations issued in Oct. 2006,
starting from 2006, the CAAC will deliver the flight safety awards
to the carriers based upon the amount of consecutive safe flight
hours they kept.
For one million consecutive flight hours, the CAAC will honor a
Chinese carrier with the First-Star Flight Safety Award; the
Two-Star Flight Safety Award for two million hours safely flown,
and so on. For 10 million safe flight hours, the airline will be
honored with the Blue-Sky Diamond Flight Safety Award.
As the largest carrier in China for the last 28 years in terms
of aircraft fleet, extensive air network and annual passenger
traffic, China Southern Airlines currently operates more than 310
aircraft and more than 1,300 daily flights all over the world
connecting more than 80 cities. Major destinations in China include
Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Guilin, Hong Kong, Kunming, Shanghai,
Shenzhen and Wuhan. International service destinations include
Amsterdam, Bangkok, Fukuoka, Hanoi, Ho Chi Min City, Islamabad,
Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Lagos, Los Angeles, Manila, Melbourne,
Moscow, Osaka, Paris, Penang, Phnom Penh, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney
and Tokyo.
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