Jingdong Airlines has been allowed to be put into operation to build a global freight aviation system in 2025

21st Century Business Herald reporter Gao Jianghong Beijing reported

On August 31, Jiangsu Jingdong Freight Airlines Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Jingdong Airlines") obtained the CCAR-121 "Aviation Carrier Operational Certificate" issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China. This means that Jingdong Airlines will be officially put into operation.

The relevant person in charge of Jingdong Airlines told the 21st Century Business Herald reporter that JD.com plans to cover major domestic cities at the end of 2025, and radiates major international air freight markets such as North America, Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea, to build a global freight route network system Essence

Civil Aviation expert Han Tao believes that the investment in JD.com will help build an independent, controllable, safe and reliable industrial chain and supply chain, and also help the country to cultivate large -scale aviation logistics companies with international competitiveness, forming a global Air freight network. As a public aviation platform, while meeting the needs of air freight in the integrated supply chain of JD.com, it can also undertake social capacity needs, which is a huge challenge for traditional freight airlines. "The catfish effect generated by JD.com's investment will also force traditional freight airlines to continuously strengthen the construction of the route network and improve services."

Jingdong Airlines is here

Jingdong planned for aviation for a long time. Since 2017, JD Logistics has begun to develop air freight business. With the rapid development of express delivery, express, cold chain and other businesses, the volume of aviation business has increased day by day. Business volume. Therefore, it is imperative to establish and cultivate independent, controllable, safe and reliable route networks and market capabilities, reduce freight costs, and improve freight efficiency. Jingdong Airlines was born in this context.

In 2018, JD Group and Nantong Municipal Government signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement. The two parties jointly strive to build Nantong Airport into Jingdong Logistics Air Freight Hub. In September 2019, Suqian Jingdong Zhanrui Enterprise Management Co., Ltd. and Nantong Airport Group jointly registered Jingdong Freight Airlines. Jingdong Airlines has a registered capital of 600 million yuan. Among them, Suqian Jingdong Zhanrui Enterprise Management Co., Ltd. holds 75%and Nantong Airport Group holds 25%. The main operation base airport is Nantong Xingdong Airport. Transportation.

According to the relevant person in charge of Jingdong Airlines, Jingdong Airlines currently mainly serves high -end consumption, high -end manufacturing, medical care, fresh freshness and other industries. The type of cargo is cargo with high timing requirements and high value of goods. The single carrier capacity can reach 23 tons. In terms of professional talents, the above -mentioned person in charge stated that Jingdong Airlines has more than 100 professional and technical personnel, and the average industrial age of professional and technical personnel will be 11 years. In the future, it will also focus on building a core mature team and talent training system. "In the future, the talent team supplement will gradually focus on campus recruitment and internal training. It is expected that internal training will be 50%in 2024."

Regarding the size of the fleet, the above -mentioned person in charge did not explicitly stated that it would only strictly operate and operate safely in accordance with the regulations and policy requirements of the Civil Aviation Administration on the basis of safe operation and stable operations. Combining the actual business development needs of JD logistics, under the premise of ensuring safe operation, gradually gradually gradually gradually operating, and gradually gradually gradually gradually operated. Expand the size of the fleet.

According to the plan, Jingdong Airlines will focus on cities such as Nantong, Beijing, Shenzhen, Wuxi and other cities. In the early stage, the air freight markets of the three major economic circles of the Yangtze River Delta, the Bohai Rim, and the Pearl River Delta were gradually deployed in the early stage. The group extension, gradually constructing a complete domestic aviation freight backbone network, covering major domestic cities by the end of 2025.

Facing international, Jingdong Airlines will actively explore the international air freight market relying on JD International's business. It will start with international routes such as Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea, and gradually expand European and American long -range routes to create an international route network with JD.com as its main node. At the end of the year, it radiated major international air freight markets such as North America, Europe, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea, and built a global freight route network system.

The relevant person in charge of Jingdong Airlines said that as a public aviation transportation platform based on JD logistics business and open to the market, Jingdong Airlines will continue to open up air freight capacity while meeting the needs of air freight in the integrated supply chain of JD logistics to undertake society and undertake society Requirements for capacity and continuously create technology -driven, efficient, safe, professional aviation freight services.

In this regard, Han Tao believes that this will be a huge challenge to traditional freight airlines, forcing traditional freight airlines to continue to strengthen the construction of the route network and improve service quality. In terms of consumers and markets, increasing competition is not a bad thing.

Integrated supply chain

Earlier, JD Logistics has built six major networks including warehousing networks, comprehensive transportation networks, last mile distribution networks, large networks, cold chain logistics networks, and cross -border logistics networks. Jingdong Airlines will cooperate with highway transportation, sea transportation, and other aviation freight business to jointly meet customers' high -time and high -quality performance requirements.

The relevant person in charge of Jingdong Airlines said that Jingdong Airlines not only improved the speed of point to the point, but also made important capabilities for Jingdong Logistics integrated supply chain logistics, and became an important part of integrated supply chain logistics services. Jingdong Airlines can cooperate with JD Logistics "Asia One" Intelligent Industrial Park, as well as "warehouse transportation" in the central warehouse, satellite warehouse and sorting centers to jointly form a multi -faceted logistics warehouse network.

Specifically, under the efficient collaboration of the six major networks of JD Logistics, Jingdong Airlines can not only obtain a steady stream of supply, but also accumulate commercial resources based on JD Logistics for many years. Professional and efficient public aviation transportation platform. On the other hand, the investment in JD.com will greatly improve transportation efficiency and reduce comprehensive operating costs. The above -mentioned person in charge stated that after the operation, JD.com will realize that many cities in the country's core sectors flow to the "Xi Fai Chaozhi", and the "one place to develop nationwide" special express airline coverage rate will be increased to more than 95%. Han Tao believes that JD.com's investment not only brings significant efficiency improvement to the integrated supply chain of JD logistics, but also helps to create an autonomous, safe, safe and reliable industrial chain and supply chain, but also helps the state cultivate the possession Internationally competitive large aviation logistics companies have formed a global air freight network.

With the investment of JD.com, competition between freight airlines has become increasingly fierce. It is understood that as of the end of 2021, there were 12 freight airlines in my country, with 198 full cargo aircraft, only 43 large cargo aircraft, and 155 small and medium -sized cargo aircraft. SF Airlines has 73 own fleets, which is far exceeding other peers.

Huang Gang, an expert in logistics supply chain, believes that JD.com and SF have different business models, which determines that it focuses more on air freight. "JD.com does the supply chain model, and SF builds a heavy asset network." Han Tao also believes that JD.com's positioning is different from SF. Fresh industries, cargo that requires high timing requirements and high product value. As a result, JD.com has always had an integrated supply chain gene since its birth.

The relevant person in charge of Jingdong Airlines said that in the future, its own capacity and external charter capacity will develop parallel and promote each other to jointly help the rapid development of JD logistics and aviation business.

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