Longjiang Airlines (LJ Air), a start-up carrier in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, welcomed its first aircraft, with an Airbus A321 landing smoothly at Harbin Taiping International Airport at 9:00 a.m. on April 21.

The A321 aircraft, equipped with 212 seats, departed from Airbus' Hamburg assembly line on April 18 and arrived in Harbin, the main base of  LJ Air, ahead of its official launch in late June.

LJ Air plans to introduce four to five A320/A321 aircraft in 2016 with another six more to be delivered in next year. It will operate both A320 and Embraer E-190 aircraft and expand its fleet to 30 aircraft by 2020.

The start-up carrier plans to operate four domestic routes initially, including Harbin-Xi'an-Chengdu, Harbin-Yiwu-Nanning, Harbin-Guangzhou-Shenzhen and Harbin-Beijing.

LJ Air is going to establish regional route network covering the whole Heilongjiang Province, and launch service to nearly twenty cities including Beijing and Shanghai, as well as start international service to the Russian Far East, connecting to Russia, Korea and Japan.

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