Airline Name
Great Wall Airlines
IATA: IJ / ICAO: GWL / Callsign: GREAT WALL
Country of Origin
Aircraft Types Used (from those available in WoA)
B747-412F/SCD (B744F) - Registration: B-2428 - Operated: 3
B747-412(BCF) (B744BCF) - Registration: B-2430 - Operated: 1
Why should this airline be added?
Great Wall Airlines was a cargo airline that operated out of Shanghai Pudong International Airport with a fleet mainly consisting of Boeing 747s. Founded in 2006, the airline was co-owned by China Eastern Airlines (51%), Singapore Airlines Cargo (25%), and Dahlia Investments (24%), a subsidiary of Temasek Holdings based in Singapore.The airline intially suspended operations in August 2006 after its parent company, China Great Wall Industry, had sanctions imposed on it by the United States Department of the Treasury for allegedly supplying missile technology to Iran, with all the aircrafts being returned to Singapore Airlines Cargo. On December 2006, sanctions against Great Wall Airlines were lifted and the airline resumed services in Feburary 2007.
The airline operated services to Amsterdam, Seoul Incheon, Mumbai, Chennai, and Manchester, Atlanta, Chicago, Anchorage up until 2011, when Great Wall Airlines was merged into China Cargo Airlines, together with Shanghai Airlines Cargo.
