Shanghai Spring Airlines

Spring Airlines Co., Ltd. is the first low-cost airline dedicated line solely owned and operated by Chinese private capital, and also the first budget airline that started from a travel agency. Spring Airlines is the sole survivor among China's first batch of private airlines and the first low-cost airline in the country. In 2011, its net profit exceeded 470 million yuan, making it the most successful low-cost airline in China at present. Headquartered in Shanghai, it has bases at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport, Shanghai Pudong Airport, Shijiazhuang Zhengding Airport, and Shenyang Taoxian Airport. Spring Airlines Co., Ltd. began preparations on May 26, 2004, after receiving approval from the then General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (now the Civil Aviation Administration of China under the Ministry of Transport). It was founded by Spring Travel Agency with a registered capital of 80 million yuan and successfully launched flights in about one year. The inaugural flight took off from Shanghai Hongqiao Airport to Yantai, Shandong, on the morning of July 18, 2005.
At its inception, it had only 3 leased Airbus A320 aircraft, operating domestic air passenger and cargo transport services and tourism charter passenger transport services. Spring Airlines achieved an average load factor of 95.4%, making it the airline with the highest passenger load factor in domestic civil aviation.
As of August 2013, the fleet had reached 37 Airbus A320 aircraft with 180 seats each. It has opened more than 10 international and regional routes to and from Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Macao, etc., as well as domestic routes to and from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Kunming, Chongqing, Zhuhai, Jieyang (Shantou), Xiamen, Sanya, Shenyang, Harbin, Changchun, Dalian, Qingdao, Shijiazhuang, Xi'an, Mianyang, Lanzhou, Urumqi, Hohhot, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Hefei, Ningbo, Changde, Zhangjiajie, Guilin, Nanning, Huai'an, Luoyang, etc., totaling about 70 routes.
Spring Airlines is the only airline in China that does not participate in the China Civil Aviation Computer Reservation System (CRS).