Who is Spring Airlines?

Spring Airlines is a Shanghai company.

Spring Airlines Co., Ltd. is China's first low-cost airline exclusively operated by private capital and the first low-cost airline started by a travel agency. Spring Airlines is China's first low-cost airline, headquartered in Shanghai, with bases at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport, Shanghai Pudong Airport, Shijiazhuang Zhengding Airport, Shenyang Taoxian Airport, and Yangzhou Taizhou International Airport.

Spring Airlines Co., Ltd. began preparations after receiving approval from the then Civil Aviation Administration of China on May 26, 2004. It was founded by Spring and Autumn Travel Agency and successfully launched its flights in about a year. The first flight took off from Shanghai Hongqiao Airport to Yantai, Shandong Province on the morning of July 18, 2005. At the beginning of its establishment, there were only three leased Airbus A320 aircraft to operate domestic air passenger and cargo transportation business and tourist passenger charter flight transportation business. Spring Airlines' average load factor reached 95.4%, becoming the airline with the highest passenger load factor in domestic civil aviation.

Spring Airlines advocates an anti-luxury low-cost consumption concept and lifestyle. The measures taken include a single aircraft type (the fleet is entirely composed of Airbus A320 and A321), a single cabin (no first class, business class) cabin, only economy class), high passenger load factor (the average passenger load factor since the launch is about 95%, ranking first among low-cost airlines in the world), high aircraft utilization rate (20% higher than the domestic industry average), low sales expenses (using online Direct selling is the main channel, no opening of the market), etc.

Positioning of Spring Airlines

The average flight time of domestic traditional airlines is about 10 hours, while the average flight time of Spring Airlines is 12 hours; traditional airlines have ordinary seats on Airbus A320 aircraft With about 154 seats, Spring Airlines adopts a single economy class layout for the same model, canceling the business class and first class layouts and changing them all to economy class, bringing the number of seats to 180, which fully improves the economy of the aircraft.

Spring Airlines is the first airline in China to independently develop a sales and departure system. Passengers can book and pay for tickets through the website or mobile phone at home or in the office, and select cabin seats online. , self-service check-in. Spring Airlines will focus on developing online ticket sales and electronic ticketing airport services. Low-cost airlines in Europe, America and Asia have all made great achievements in electronic tickets. Electronic tickets can save costs for airlines and bring benefits to passengers.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Spring Airlines Co., Ltd.