China Eastern Airlines was founded in 1988 by China Eastern Air Holding Company in China - PRC. China Eastern Airlines’s headquarters are currently located in Shanghai and the main base in Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport. China Eastern Airlines is not a star alliance member. The company has 3 stars on Skytrax rating. Liu Shaoyong leads the company as the CEO. Its subsidiaries include Shanghai Airlines, China United Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, Shanghai Eastern Aircraft Maintenance Limited, China Eastern Airlines, Joy Air, China Cargo Airlines and China Eastern Airlines.

China Eastern Airlines employs more than 80,000 employees worldwide and operates a mainline fleet of more than 501 aircraft. It has declared $ 15,166,000,000 in revenue. China Eastern Airlines offers service to 217 destinations and they have carried more than 110.8 million passengers in 2017. Peking-Jakarta,Peking-Seoul,Peking-Hanoi,Kuala Lumpur-Peking,Phuket-Guangzhou,Shanghai-Taipei are some of the main flight destinations.

China Eastern Airlines’s fleet consists of Airbus A320 model aircrafts. The average age of the fleet is 5.7 years. The youngest aircrafts are the Boeing 777 at 2.6 years old. They rank 3 among 67 airlines operating this type of aircraft. The most common aircraft in the fleet is the Airbus A320 with 185 of them at hand. They rank 93 among 259 airlines operating this type of aircraft.

China Eastern Airlines have 1 accident reports to date. The most recent one is in 1983 at Fuzhou, China with McDonnell Douglas MD-80/90 aircraft.