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In late 1993 the airline took ownership of the first of five 72-seater ATR 72s that had been ordered in May the same year. This event was a milestone for China Xinjiang Airlines as it became the first Chinese airline in taking delivery and operating ATR aircraft. At April 1995, Xinjiang Airlines was evenly owned by CAAC and the Xinjiang Province and it had a fleet of two Antonov An-24s, two DHC-6 Twin Otters, one Ilyushin Il-86, eight SAP Y-8s and six Tupolev Tu-154Ms. Five years later, the president position was held by Zhang Ruifu, who employed 4,597. At this time, Almaty, Beijing, Changsha, Changzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Guilin, Haikou, Hangzhou, Harbin, Hong Kong, Islamabad, Jinan, Karamay, Korla, Kunming, Lanzhou, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Qingdao, Shanghai, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Tashkent, Tianjin, Wuhan, Xi'an, Xiamen, Xining, Yantai and Zhengzhou comprised the scheduled destination network. In 2001, Boeing 737-400s were deployed on a new route linking Urumqi with Hong Kong.

China Southern Airlines (CZ) integrated both China Northern Airlines and China Xinjiang Airlines into its operations; the takeover had been approved by the Chinese authorities in October 2002. China Xinjiang Airlines IATA's code ″XO″ became replaced with the CZ one for domestic operations in early 2003. By late March 2003, the replacement of the XO code was extended to all the operations.

Fleet

China Xinjiang Airlines operated the following aircraft:

China Xinjiang Airlines fleet history
Aircraft	Total	Introduced	Retired	Notes
ATR 72-500	5	1997	2003	Transferred to China Southern Airlines
Antonov An-24RV	2	Unknown	Unknown
Boeing 737-300	2	1993	2003	Two transferred to China Southern Airlines
Boeing 737-400	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Boeing 737-700	4	2001	2003	Transferred to China Southern Airlines
Boeing 757-200	9	1997	2003	Transferred to China Southern Airlines
DHC-6 Twin Otter	2	Unknown	Unknown
Ilyushin Il-86	1	1993	2003
Tupolev Tu-154M	6	1986	2001
SAP Y-8	8	Unknown	Unknown

Notes

At this time Flight International had not yet accounted for the ATR aircraft the airline took possession of since 1993.

References

"Airline details - China Xinjiang Airlines". Archived from the original on 2007-11-24.
^ "World airline directory–China Xinjiang Airlines". Flight International. Vol. 157, no. 4722. 4–10 April 2000. p. 77. ISSN 0015-3710. Archived from the original on 2 September 2018.
"World Airline Directory." Flight International. 1–7 April 1998. 57. "Diwopu International Airport, Urumqi, 830016, Xinjiang, China."
"联系我们." China Xinjiang Airlines. Retrieved on October 12, 2012. "地址：中国新疆乌鲁木齐市迎宾路46号地窝堡国际机场"
"Xinjiang Airlines Maintains China's Longest Safe Flight Record". People's Daily Online. Archived from the original on 1 September 2018.
^ "AI(R) delivers first ATR 72 to China". Flight International. 152 (4590): 12. 3–9 September 1997. ISSN 0015-3710. Archived from the original on 5 September 2018.
^ "World airline directory–Xinjiang Airlines". Flight International. 147 (4466): 80. 5–11 April 1995. ISSN 0015-3710. Archived from the original on 26 August 2018.
"World airline directory–China Xinjiang Airlines". Flight International. Vol. 157, no. 4722. 4–10 April 2000. p. 78. ISSN 0015-3710. Archived from the original on 2 September 2018.
^ "Routes". Flightglobal. Flight International. 19 July 2001. Archived from the original on 27 August 2018. Xinjiang Airlines has introduced a twice-weekly service between Hong Kong and Urumqi in China, with Boeing 737-400s.
^ Ionides, Nicholas (21–27 January 2003). "China Southern absorbs carriers". Flight International. 163 (4866). Singapore: 14. ISSN 0015-3710. Archived from the original on 1 September 2018.
^ "Carriers blend into China Southern". Flightglobal. 1 February 2003. Archived from the original on 27 August 2018.

External links

Xinjiang Branch – China Southern Airlines (in Chinese)

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