DATE OF BOARD MEETING

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AIR CHINA LIMITED

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

(Stock Code:00753)

DATE  OF  BOARD MEETING

This is to announce that a meeting of the board of directors of Air China Limited (the "Company") will be held at the Conference Room One, 29/F, Air China Building, 36 Xiaoyun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, 30 August 2016, for the purpose of, among other matters, considering and approving the results of the Company for the six months ended 30 June 2016.

By order of the Board

Air China Limited

Rao Xinyu    Tam  Shuit Mui

Joint  Company Secretaries

Beijing,  the  PRC,  17  August 2016

As at the date of this announcement, the directors of the Company are Mr. Cai Jianjiang, Mr. Song Zhiyong, Mr. Cao Jianxiong, Mr. Feng Gang, Mr. John Robert Slosar, Mr. Ian Sai Cheung Shiu, Mr. Pan Xiaojiang*, Mr. Simon To Chi Keung*, Mr. Stanley Hui Hon-chung* and Mr. Li Dajin*.

*    Independent  non-executive  director  of  the Company