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Air Macau

Logo: Air Macau, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons³

National airline of Macau

Air Macau is the flag carrier of Macau. It operates services to destinations in mainland China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, 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.² It is part of China National Aviation Corporation.¹ Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1994Founded¹

HeadquartersMacau¹
Founded inMacau¹
Websitewww.airmacau.com.mo
Legal formjoint-stock company¹

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Corporate structure

Air Macau is part of a group headed by China National Aviation Corporation. 12 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

China National Aviation Corporation Tianjin
- Air Macau Macau
- Air China Subsidiary · Beijing, China
  - Ameco Beijing Subsidiary · 75% · Beijing
  - Air China Cargo Subsidiary · Beijing
  - Beijing Airlines Subsidiary
  - Dalian Airlines Subsidiary · Dalian
  - Shandong Airlines Subsidiary · 济南
  - Shenzhen Airlines Subsidiary · Shenzhen
    - Henan Airlines Subsidiary · Zhengzhou
  - Tibet Airlines Subsidiary · Lhasa
  - اير تشاينا ليمتد (مكتب تمثيل) Branch · Beijing, China

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

The airline was established on 13 September 1994, 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.

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). 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. In 2010, TAP sold its share to Air China.

From Wikipedia’s article on Air Macau, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.⁴

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Destinations

The airline currently operates 24 destinations including 15 destinations in mainland China.

Codeshare agreements

Air Macau codeshares with the following sister airlines:

Interline agreements

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Fleet

Current fleet

As of July 2026, Air Macau operates the following aircraft:

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Former fleet

As of August 2025, Air Macau operated 6 Airbus A320, 4 Airbus A320neo, 8 Airbus A321 and 5 Airbus A321neo.

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. 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.

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.