Hainan Airlines Company Limited (HNA) (SSE: 600221) (Chinese: 海南航空公司; Pinyin: Hǎinán Hángkōng Gōngsī) is an airline headquartered in the HNA Development Building in Haikou, Hainan, People's Republic of China. It is the largest privately-owned air transport company and the fourth-largest airline in terms of fleet size in the People's Republic of China. It operates scheduled domestic and international services on 500 routes from Hainan and nine locations on the mainland, as well as charter services. Its main base is Haikou Meilan International Airport, with hubs at Beijing Capital International Airport, Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, Taiyuan Wusu Airport and Urumqi Diwopu International Airport.
Hainan Airlines is one of the seven airlines to be ranked as a 5-star airline by the independent research consultancy firm Skytrax, having been promoted on January 11, 2011. This made it the first mainland Chinese carrier to win that award.
Chinese description below:
海南航空股份有限公司（上交所：600221），簡稱海航，是一家总部设在海南省海口市的中国第一家A股和B股同時上市的航空公司，IATA代碼為HU，ICAO代码为CHH，以海口美蘭国际機場为基地。海南航空是繼中國南方航空公司、中國國際航空公司及中國東方航空公司後中國第四大的航空公司。也是中國首家航空被SkyTrax評為五星級的航空公司。海南航空股份有限公司也是海南航空集团下属航空运输产业集团的龙头企业，1998年8月，中国民用航空总局正式批准海航入股海口美兰国际机场，成为首家拥有中国机场股权的航空公司。
