A319 delivered to East Star Airlines

Airbus delivered the third A319 aircraft to East Star Airlines on February 8 at the Wuhan Tianhe International Airport. The following day, the new aircraft made its maiden flight from Wuhan to Qingdao and Sanya. Lan Shili, president and chairman of East Star Airlines, said that since the airline’s maiden flight last May, the airline has carried 286,300 passengers with an average passenger load factor of 82.6 percent. On-time flight performance reached 88.7 percent and sales income reached RMB 180 million. East Star Airlines flies from Wuhan to 13 cities, including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Haikou, Guilin, Changde, Nanjing, Shenyang, Hangzhou, Xi’an, Chongqing, Tianjin, Qingdao, and Sanya. The airline is also planning to open flights from Wuhan to Harbin, Chengdu, Kunming, Shanghai and Beijing.