China Express Airlines Bids Farewell to Last Two CRJ200s

China Express Airlines (G5) bade farewell to its last two Bombardier CRJ200 aircraft following the type's last revenue flight on Mar. 31, marking an end to the regional aircraft's more than 9 years service with the airline and the end of CRJ-200 operations within China as a whole.

The Chongqing-based airline operated the final CRJ200 services on Guiyang-Chongqing route on Tuesday, and held two grand farewell ceremonies at Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport (KWE) and Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport (CKG), respectively.

The two regional aircraft, Registration B-3565 and B-7700, were delivered to China Express in June 2011 and February 2010, which are also the last two CRJ-200s operating in China.

The final flight G52699 took off from Guiyang at 11:07 a.m. and arrived at CKG at 11:47 a.m., according to VeryZhun, China's leading flight status provider.

China Express took delivery of its first CRJ200 in Sep. 2006 and operated a total of five ones in Jun. 2011. In the past decade, the airline's five CRJ200s have flown on domestic routes for more than 106,000 hours, handling 2.56 million passengers and 85,000 aircraft movements.

China Express is now an exclusive operator of the CRJ-900 aircraft with an average age of 1.13 years.

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