Appt Non-Executive Director

Air China Ld
08 June 2007

                               AIR CHINA LIMITED

(a joint stock limited company incorporated in the People's Republic of China
                            with limited liability)

                               (Stock Code: 753)


                     APPOINTMENT OF NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR


The Company is pleased to announce that the appointment of Mr. CHEN Nan Lok
Philip as non-executive director of the Company has become effective from 1 June
2007.


Reference is made to the announcement of Air China Limited (the 'Company')
dated 28 December 2006 in respect of, among other things, the appointment of Mr.
CHEN Nan Lok Philip as the Company's non-executive director, according to
which the term of Mr. Chen's office shall commence upon the approval by
relevant PRC authorities to the proposed amendment of the Company's articles
of association in respect of the number of directors (the 'Proposed Amendment').


Relevant PRC authorities have approved the Proposed Amendment on 1 June 2007.
The Company is pleased to announce that the appointment of Mr. Chen as
non-executive director of the Company has become effective from 1 June 2007. The
term of his office shall commence on 1 June 2007 and shall end on the expiry of
the term of the current session of the board of directors of the Company.


Mr. CHEN Nan Lok Philip, aged 51, has been a director of Cathay Pacific Airways
Limited since March 1997 and was appointed Chief Executive of that company in
January 2005. He is also a director of John Swire & Sons (H.K.) Limited and
Swire Pacific Limited and Chairman of Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Limited. He
joined the John Swire & Sons Limited group in 1977 and in addition to Hong Kong
has worked with the group in Mainland China and the Asia Pacific region. He has
an honours degree in Political Science and History from the University of Hong
Kong.


Mr. Chen has not held any directorship in any other listed companies or taken up
a post in any affiliated companies of the Company in the past three years.
Further, Mr. Chen does not have any relationship with any other director, senior
management, substantial shareholder or controlling shareholder of the Company.
Mr. Chen does not have any equity interest in the Company within the meaning of
Part XV of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571 of the Laws of Hong
Kong). There is no information to be disclosed on items from (h) to (v) in Rule
13.51(2) of the Listing Rules. No other matter needs to be brought to the
attention of the shareholders of the Company.


Mr. Chen will not receive any compensation for his service as a director of the
Company.



                                                     By Order of the Board
                                                     Air China Limited
                                                     Zheng Baoan    Li Man Kit
                                                     Joint Company Secretaries



Beijing, the PRC, 8 June 2007



As at the date of this announcement, the Directors of the Company are Messrs Li
Jiaxiang, Kong Dong, Wang Shixiang, Yao Weiting, Christopher Dale Pratt, Chen
Nan Lok Philip, Ma Xulun, Cai Jianjiang, Fan Cheng, Hu Hung Lick, Henry*, Wu
Zhipan*, Zhang Ke* and Jia Kang*.



*  Independent non-executive Director of the Company


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