SSE ANNOUNCEMENT

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AIR CHINA LIMITED

ANNOUNCEMENT ON KEY OPERATING DATA OF MARCH 2022

In March 2022, Air China Limited (the "Company") and its subsidiaries (the "Group") recorded a year- on-year and a month-on-month decrease 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 decrease of 63.3% and a month-on-month decrease of 44.6%. Passenger traffic recorded a year-on-year decrease of 70.1% and a month-on-month decrease of 49.2%. Among which, for domestic routes, passenger capacity decreased by 64.7% year on year and decreased by 45.5% month on month, and passenger traffic decreased by 70.7% year on year and decreased by 49.8% month on month. For international routes, passenger capacity decreased by 20.4% and 20.6% as compared to the same period last year and the previous month, respectively, and passenger traffic decreased by 41.2% and increased by 20.1% as compared to the same period last year and the previous month, respectively. For regional routes, passenger capacity decreased by 36.1% and decreased by 41.8% as compared to the same period last year and the previous month, respectively, and passenger traffic recorded a decrease of 48.3% year on year and a decrease of 57.2% month on month. The overall passenger load factor was 59.1%, representing a decrease of 13.4 percentage points as compared to the same period last year and a decrease of 5.3 percentage points as compared to the previous month. Among which, the passenger load factor for domestic routes decreased by 12.4 percentage points year on year and decreased by 5.2 percentage points month on month, the passenger load factor for international routes decreased by 10.7 percentage points and increased by 10.2 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

9.5 percentage points year on year and decreased by 14.5 percentage points month on month.

In terms of cargo operations, cargo capacity (measured by available freight tonne kilometers (the "AFTK")) decreased by 8.5% year on year and increased by 13.5% month on month. Cargo and mail traffic (measured by revenue freight tonne kilometers (the "RFTK")) increased by 3.3% year on year and increased by 45.2% month on month. The cargo load factor was 41.5%, representing a year-on- year increase of 4.8 percentage points and a month-on-month increase of 9.0 percentage points.

In March 2022, the Group introduced two A321NEO aircraft, one A350 aircraft, one A320NEO aircraft, and retired one A330-200 aircraft. As at the end of March 2022, the Group operated a fleet of 751 aircraft, including 301 self-owned aircraft, 240 aircraft under finance lease and 210 aircraft under operating lease.