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Hainan Airlines opens a new Haikou – Osaka link

Hainan Airlines opened a new direct air route on Thursday morning (February 28) between Haikou, capital of south China’s Hainan Province, and Osaka, Japan’s second-largest city.

Tourists visit Qilou ancient street in Haikou, capital of south China’s Hainan Province, on Feb. 6, 2019, the second day of the Chinese Lunar New Year.

It is this year’s first international air flight from Haikou launched by Hainan Airlines, which has so far opened a number of international routes linking Haikou with cities including Rome, Singapore, Sydney and Melbourne.

Hainan will use a Boeing 737-800 aircraft and operate three flights per week on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

The inaugural flight took off at 8:40 a.m. BJT before arriving in Osaka at 1:40 p.m. JPT. It is scheduled to return to Haikou at 7:15 p.m. BJT after departing from Osaka at 2:40 p.m. JPT on the same day.

Top Copyright Photo: Hainan Airlines Boeing 737-84P WL N5515X (B-1928) (msn 39208) BFI (Steve Bailey). Image: 922738.

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Boeing, Hainan Airlines, Sinopec celebrate China’s first commercial flight with sustainable aviation biofuel

Boeing (Chicago, Seattle and Charleston), Hainan Airlines (Haikou and Beijing) and Sinopec today celebrated China’s first passenger flight with sustainable aviation biofuel, a key environmental milestone for China’s commercial aviation industry.

The regularly scheduled Hainan Airlines flight – which carried more than 100 passengers from Shanghai to Beijing in a Next-Generation 737-800 – used biofuel made by Sinopec from waste cooking oil collected from restaurants in China. Both of the airplane’s CFM International CFM56-7B engines were powered by a fuel blend of approximately 50 percent aviation biofuel mixed with conventional petroleum jet fuel.

Sustainably produced biofuel, which reduces carbon emissions by 50 to 80 percent compared to petroleum through its lifecycle, is expected to play a key role in supporting aviation’s growth while meeting environmental goals. The Boeing Current Market Outlook has forecast that China will require 6,020 new airplanes by 2033 to meet fast-growing passenger demand for domestic and international air travel.

In China, Boeing collaborates with a wide range of stakeholders to develop a new sustainable aviation biofuel industry. In 2011, Air China conducted China’s first aviation biofuel test flight in a Boeing 747-400 using China-grown, jatropha-based biofuel. Boeing also partners with the Commercial Aviation Corp. of China (COMAC) and several research institutions, including Chinese Academy of Science’s Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT), on aviation biofuel development.

Boeing also works with airlines, research institutions, governments and other stakeholders to develop sustainable aviation biofuel in the United States, Africa, Australia, Brazil, Europe, Japan and the Middle East.

Copyright Photo: Steve Bailey/AirlinersGallery.com. The pictured Boeing 737-84P WL N5515X (msn 39208) became B-1928 when it was handed over to Hainan Airlines on February 21, 2014.

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