HISTORY: CHINA NORTHERN AIRLINES was an airline headquartered on the grounds of Dongta Airport, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. China Northern Airlines was established in 1990 to act as a successor to Swan Airlines. It later merged into China Southern Airlines in 2003. Air China was established and commenced operations on 1 July 1988 as a result of the Chinese government's decision in late 1987 to split the operating divisions of Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) into six separate airlines:
AIR CHINA (which inherited the IATA and ICAO code of the original CAAC)
CHINA SOUTHWEST AIRLINES (merged with Air China in 2002, originally based in Chengdu)
CHINA EASTERN AIRLINES (based in Shanghai)
CHINA NORTHWEST AIRLINES (merged with China Eastern in 2002, originally based in Xi'an)
CHINA SOUTHERN AIRLINES (based in Guangzhou)
CHINA NORTHERN AIRLINES (merged with China Southern in 2003, originally based in Shenyang)
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