Air Macau
{{Short description|Flag carrier of Macau}}
{{Infobox airline
| airline = Air Macau Company Limited
{{nobold|{{lang|zh-Hant|澳門航空股份公司}}}}
{{lang|pt|Companhia de Transportes Aéreos Air Macau, S.A.R.L.}}
| logo = Air Macau logo.svg
| logo_size =
| image = 20240128 Airbus A320-232 of Air Macau (B-MBC) landing at HGH 02.jpg
| IATA = NX
| ICAO = AMU
| parent = Air China (66.9%)
| founded = {{start date and age|1994|09|13|df=yes}}
| commenced = {{start date and age|1995|11|09|df=yes}}
| key_people = {{bulleted list|
| Zhao Xiaohang (chairman)
| Chen Hong (CEO)}}
| revenue = {{increase}} MOP78.76 million (2017)
| headquarters = Macau
| hubs = Macau International Airport
| focus_cities =
| frequent_flyer = Lotus Miles
| fleet_size = 22
| destinations = 29
| num_employees = 1,279 (31 March 2016){{cite web|url=http://www.airmacau.jp/f_about.html|title=About Air Macau|work=airmacau.jp|access-date=25 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405134228/http://airmacau.jp/f_about.html|archive-date=5 April 2016|url-status=dead}}
| website = {{URL|www.airmacau.com.mo}}
}}
{{Infobox Chinese
| title = Air Macau Company Limited
| t = {{linktext|澳門|航空|股份|公司}}
| s = 澳门航空股份公司
| j = ou3 mun4*2 hong4 hung1 gu2 fan6*2 gung1 si1
| p = Àomén Hángkōng Gǔfèn gōngsī
| pt = Companhia de Transportes Aéreos Air Macau, S.A.R.L.{{Cite web |title=Companhia de Transportes Aéreos Air Macau, S.A.R.L. |url=https://www.io.gov.mo/pt/entities/priv/rec/100191 |access-date=2021-04-02 |website=Imprensa Oficial |language=pt}}
}}
Air Macau is the flag carrier of Macau. It operates services to 24 destinations in Mainland China, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, from the airline's home base at Macau International Airport. In 2014, Air Macau carried 2.12 million passengers with an average load factor of 68.20% and carried 15,900 tonnes of cargo and mail.[http://www.airchina.com.cn/en/investor_relations/images/financial_info_and_roadshow/2015/04/23/769BFB1B8FEBE54A57FFCF70FFC49322.pdf Air China Annual Report 2014 (Page 22)]
History
The airline was established on 13 September 1994,{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=6464023|title=Air Macau Company Limited: Private Company Information - Bloomberg|website=www.bloomberg.com|access-date=2017-11-20}} and began commercial operations on 9 November 1995, with a flight from Macau to Beijing and Shanghai. Prior to 1995, there was no air service to Macau since 1962 other than the helicopter service. Seaplane service had been provided by Macau Air Transport Company from 1948 to 1961. One-aircraft service between Beijing, Shanghai and Taipei began on 8 December 1995. The first pure-freighter service was launched on 7 October 2002, between Taipei and Shenzhen via Macau.
In 1999, the airline had 1.1 million passengers each year, with 80% of them originating from two cities in Taiwan: Kaohsiung and Taipei.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.asiaweek.com:80/asiaweek/magazine/99/1224/sr.macau.taiwan.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010128213900/http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/99/1224/sr.macau.taiwan.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2001-01-28|author=Cheng, Allen T.|title=Fairweather Friends|magazine=Asia Week|date=1999-12-24|access-date=2017-09-12}}
In 2006, Air Macau was owned by China National Aviation Holding (51%), TAP Air Portugal (20%), STDM (14%), EVA Air (5%), the government of Macau (5%) and Macau investors (5%). It employs 1,245 staff (at March 2016).{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} In 2009, two companies controlled by Edmund Ho, the Chief Executive of Macau sold a combined 1.25% stake to Air China for a sum undisclosed by the parties.{{cite web|url=http://en.carnoc.com/list/10/10972.html |title=Air China Buys 1.25% Air Macau Stake |date=2009-07-19 |work=Macau Daily Times |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225172237/http://en.carnoc.com/list/10/10972.html |archive-date=2012-02-25 }} () In 2010, TAP sold its share to Air China."[http://www.macaubusiness.com/news/portuguese-carrier-offloads-air-macau-stake/2572/ Portuguese carrier offloads Air Macau stake]." Macau Business. Posted April 29, 2010. Issue 7 (7/2006). Retrieved on April 28, 2013. ([https://archive.today/20130429023659/http://www.macaubusiness.com/news/portuguese-carrier-offloads-air-macau-stake/2572/ Archive])
Corporate affairs
The head office is currently in the Edifício CNAC ({{lang-zh|first=t,j|t=中航大廈|s=中航大厦|j=zung1 hong4 daai6 haa6|p=Zhòngháng Dàshà|labels=no}}) in Sé (Cathedral Parish) on the Macau Peninsula."[http://en.airmacau.com.mo/contact/area_macau.asp Contact Us Service] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100325235046/http://en.airmacau.com.mo/contact/area_macau.asp |date=2010-03-25 }}." Air Macau. Retrieved on 23 September 2009. "General Administration Office 398 Alameda Dr. Carlos D'Assumpcao, Edif.CNAC, 13-18 andar, Macau""[http://www.airmacau.com.mo/contact/area_macau.asp Contact Us] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111130172230/http://www.airmacau.com.mo/contact/area_macau.asp |date=2011-11-30 }}." (Chinese) Air Macau. Retrieved on 15 December 2011. "{{lang|zh-Hant|澳門新口岸宋玉生廣場398號中航大廈 13-18樓}}" Previously it was in the Edifício Tai Wah ({{lang-zh|first=t,j|t=大華大廈|s=大华大厦|j=daai6 waa4 daai6 haa6|p=Dàhuá Dàshà|labels=no}}) in Sé."[https://web.archive.org/web/20120426051856/http://www.tapspecials.com/pdfs/pt/2003_050_068.pdf Outras Empresas do Grupo TAP]." TAP Portugal. p. 66 (PDF p. 15). Retrieved on 15 December 2011. "693 Av. da Praia Grande Ed. Tai Wah 5/12 Macau"{{cite web |url=http://www.airmacau.com.mo/big5/contact/index.htm |script-title=zh:澳航辦事處 - 澳航地區辦事處: 澳門 |publisher=Air Macau |language=zh-mo |date=2 April 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030402042313/http://www.airmacau.com.mo/big5/contact/index.htm |access-date=15 December 2011 |archive-date=2003-04-02 |quote={{lang|zh-Hant|澳門南灣街693號大華大廈5,8-12樓}}}}"[https://web.archive.org/web/20030402024453/http://www.airmacau.com.mo/eng/contact/index.htm Air Macau Contacts: Macau]." Air Macau. Retrieved on 15 December 2011. "General Administration Office 693 Av. da Praia Grande, Edif. Tai Wah, 5, 8-12 andar, Macau"
Destinations
The airline currently operates 24 destinations including 15 destinations in mainland China.{{Cite web |url=https://www.aacm.gov.mo/images/download1/201603023031923.pdf |title=Destination Network of Macau International Airport |access-date=2016-03-13 |archive-date=2016-03-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313202122/https://www.aacm.gov.mo/images/download1/201603023031923.pdf |url-status=dead }}
Frequent flyer
Air Macau has its own frequent flyer program called Lotus Miles (formerly Privileges). On 1 January 2015, Privileges merged with Phoenix Miles, which is the frequent flyer program of Air China, hence retaining the current Lotus Miles.{{cite web |title = 澳門航空"澳尊會"加入"鳳凰知音"常旅客計劃 |website = airchina.com.cn/ |url =http://big5.airchina.com.cn/cn/about_us/news/62282.shtml |access-date = 2021-01-21 }}
Fleet
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=Current fleet=
{{As of|2024|08}}, Air Macau operates an all-Airbus fleet composed of the following aircraft:{{cite web |title=List of Macao Registered Aircraft |url=https://www.aacm.gov.mo/index.php?r=overview/aircraft&pageid=84 |website=Civil Aviation Authority of Macao SAR}}
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|+ Air Macau fleet |
| rowspan="2" style="background:#372766;color:white;"|Aircraft
! rowspan="2" style="background:#372766;color:white;"|In service ! rowspan="2" style="background:#372766;color:white;"|Orders ! colspan="3" style="background:#372766;color:white;"|Passengers ! rowspan="2" style="background:#372766;color:white;"|Notes |
|---|
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! style="width:30px;" style="background:#372766;"| C ! style="width:30px;" style="background:#372766;"| Y ! style="width:30px;" style="background:#372766;"| Total |
| {{nowrap|Airbus A320-200}}
|6 |— |8 |150 |158 |B-MCI in "Historic Centre of Macau" livery. |
| {{nowrap|Airbus A320neo}}
|4 |— |8 |150 |158 |
| rowspan="2"|{{nowrap|Airbus A321-200}}
|rowspan="2"|8 |rowspan="2"|— |12 |170 |182 |rowspan="2"|B-MBM in "Macau Welcomes You" special livery. |
| 24
|155 |179 |
| {{nowrap|Airbus A321neo}}
|4 |— |12 |186 |198 |B-MBQ in "Macau Welcomes You" special livery.{{cite web|url=https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/73513-air-macau-to-lease-two-a321neo-from-alc|title=Air Macau to lease two A321neo from ALC|publisher=Ch-Aviation|date=6 December 2018}}{{Cite web | url=http://en.airmacau.com.mo/eng/about/aircraft_intro_en.php | title=Air Macau [Aircraft Information] | publisher=Air Macau | access-date=2019-12-15 | archive-date=2019-12-15 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215065506/http://en.airmacau.com.mo/eng/about/aircraft_intro_en.php | url-status=dead }} |
| Total
!22 !— !colspan="4" | |
=Former fleet=
Two Boeing 727-100Fs were rented to provide air cargo service to Shenzhen and Taiwan from 2002 to 2006; both have returned to revenue service Transmile Air Services (and repainted from Air Macau livery). Both aircraft were replaced with two A300-600RFs owned by Air Macau. These two Airbus A300 left the company in 2012. Two old A321-100 were replaced by two new A321-200 in 2013. In 2020 two Airbus A319-100 were retired.
=Livery=
Although Air Macau serves as Macau's flag carrier, the flag of the Special Administrative Region of Macau has never appeared on any of its aircraft, similar to Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific. However, unlike Cathay Pacific, which carried a Union Jack on its aircraft prior to the 1997 Handover of Hong Kong, the flag of Portugal never appeared on any Air Macau aircraft prior to the 1999 Handover of Macau.
=Macau Asia Express=
Macau Asia Express was a failed low-cost airline project, which was to be based in Macau and originally to be launched in 2007, offering scheduled flights mostly to mainland China.{{cite news | title= Directory: World Airlines | work= Flight International | page= 46 | date= 2007-04-10}} It was founded on 24 January 2006 with an initial funding of $30 million. It was owned by Air Macau (51%) and ST-CNAC (CNAC and Shun Tak Holdings) (49%). The aircraft fleet would have consisted of 6 Airbus A320 short-medium haul jet aircraft, which was planned to be expanded to 15–20 aircraft over the first years in operation.{{cite web|title=Macau Asia Express to be launched later this year |date=2006-01-27 |work=m-Travel.com |url=http://www.m-travel.com/news/2006/01/macau_asia_expr.html |access-date=2007-06-15 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928222059/http://www.m-travel.com/news/2006/01/macau_asia_expr.html |archive-date=2007-09-28 }}
In November 2007, the Macau Daily News reported that Macau Asia Express was suffering from funding problems, which led to a delay at the taking-over of ordered aircraft, and finally the revocation of its Air Operator's Certificate in 2008.{{Cite web |url=http://www.airlineupdate.com/content_public/airlines/far_east/macau.htm |title=Macau Asia Express at airlineupdate.com |access-date=2010-11-20 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120721093306/http://www.airlineupdate.com/content_public/airlines/far_east/macau.htm |archive-date=2012-07-21 |url-status=dead }}
See also
References
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External links
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- {{Official website |URL = http://www.airmacau.com.mo/index.php?lang=eng }} {{in lang|en}}
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