9 Air (AQ, Guangzhou) will take delivery of its first B737 MAX next year, and is planning to use it to develop its maiden international routes. According to CAPA, the aircraft will be deployed on flights to northern Japan once in service.
The Juneyao Airlines (Shanghai Hongqiao) budget subsidiary ordered thirty B737 MAX and twenty B737NextGens from Boeing (BOE, Washington National) in 2014. It currently operates eleven B737-800s on scheduled flights to seventeen destinations that span China's eastern seaboard as well as its interior as far west as Urumqi.
The China Daily has, meanwhile, confirmed that Air China (CA, Beijing Capital) is scheduled to be China's B737 MAX launch operator. The flag carrier is due to take delivery of the country's first B737 MAX at some point this year.
