Juneyao Airlines (Shanghai Hongqiao) is planning to expand its international footprint using a fleet of up to ten widebody aircraft airline chairman Wang Junjin has announced.

Speaking to Bloomberg during Juneyao's Star Alliance Connecting Partner induction ceremony, Wang said the carrier was looking at both the A350 and B787 with a decision possibly due this year. Once a decision is made, the carrier will look to add the aircraft through 2020.

At present, Juneyao Airlines is an all-Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) operation employing an all-Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) fleet of forty-one A320-200s and fifteen A321-200s on flights to seventy destinations across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, Russia, Macau, and Japan.

It also operates a budget subsidiary, 9 Air (AQ, Guangzhou), which is uses an all-Boeing (BOE, Washington National) fleet of nine B737-800s.