SSE ANNOUNCEMENT

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AIR CHINA LIMITED

ANNOUNCEMENT ON KEY OPERATING DATA OF AUGUST 2024

In August 2024, Air China Limited (the "Company") and its subsidiaries (the "Group") recorded a year-on-year and a month-on-month increase in combined passenger traffic (measured by revenue passenger kilometers (the "RPK")). Passenger capacity (measured by available seat kilometers (the "ASK")) recorded a year-on-year increase of 12.4% and a month-on-month increase of 1.2%. Passenger traffic recorded a year-on-year increase of 21.7% and a month-on-month increase of 4.7%. Among which, for domestic routes, passenger capacity decreased by 0.5% year on year and increased by 0.8% month on month, and passenger traffic increased by 9.1% year on year and increased by 4.7% month on month. For international routes, passenger capacity increased by 69.5% and increased by 2.4% as compared to the same period last year and the previous month, respectively, and passenger traffic increased by 79.7% and increased by 4.6% as compared to the same period last year and the previous month, respectively. For regional routes, passenger capacity increased by 27.8% and increased by 1.7% as compared to the same period last year and the previous month, respectively, and passenger traffic recorded an increase of 27.3% year on year and an increase of 5.9% month on month. The passenger load factor was 82.9% representing an increase of 6.3 percentage points as compared to the same period last year and an increase of 2.7 percentage points as compared to the previous month. Among which, the passenger load factor for domestic routes increased by 7.4 percentage points year on year and increased by 3.1 percentage points month on month, the passenger load factor for international routes increased by 4.6 percentage points and increased by 1.7 percentage points as compared to the same period last year and the previous month, respectively, and the passenger load factor for regional routes decreased by 0.3 percentage points year on year and increased by 3.1 percentage points month on month.

In terms of cargo operations, cargo capacity (measured by available freight tonne kilometers (the "AFTK")) increased by 12.7% year on year and increased by 2.2% month on month. Cargo and mail traffic (measured by revenue freight tonne kilometers (the "RFTK")) increased by 35.2% year on year and decreased by 3.6% month on month. The cargo load factor was 38.7%, representing a year-on-year increase of 6.4 percentage points and a month-on-month decrease of 2.3 percentage points.

Starting from 27 August 2024, the Company resumed Shanghai Pudong - Barcelona route (three flights per week).

In August 2024, the Group introduced one ARJ21-700 aircraft, one C919 aircraft and five B737 series aircraft and retired two A320 series aircraft and one A330 aircraft. As at the end of August 2024, the Group operated a fleet of 921 aircraft, including 411 self-owned aircraft, 214 aircraft under finance lease and 296 aircraft under operating lease.