Colorful Guizhou Airlines (GY, Guiyang) commenced commercial operations on Thursday, December 31 with scheduled passenger flights between Guiyang and Bijie. Using its growing fleet of E190s - set to grow to seven by year-end - the start-up will roll out additional services to Tongren, Chengdu Shuangliu, Tianjin, Zhuhai and Ningbo over the coming weeks.

Also known as Duocai Guizhou Airlines, the start-up is a joint-venture between Guizhou Industrial Investment Group (95%) and Weining County Construction Investment Group (5%).