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Shanghai Museum

Shanghai Museum   上海博物馆
   
Places
B-7349 B777-39PER China Eastern (Shanghai HQ) 2025-

This special scheme promotes Shanghai Museum and includes traditional patterns used in ancient Chinese arts, which make up for most of the collection of the museum.

Image  ©  Ricardo de Vries (AMS)
Tags   Museums & Buildings, Traditional Patterns

Welcome to Enshi #2

Welcome to Enshi   恩施旅游
#2
Places
B-5475 B737-89P China Eastern Wuhan 2014-17

Promoting tourism in the Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (Hubei Province) of Central China. This promotional scheme is the updated and simplified version of the Enshi scheme unveiled in 2010 (see #1). The green background refers to the Qing River and the surrounding forest-covered mountains.

This aircraft was assigned to the fleet of China Eastern Wuhan.

Image  ©  Liuqianlu (KMG)
Tags   Tourism

Beautiful Gansu

Beautiful Gansu   绚丽甘肃
Flying Apsaras   飞天 Fēitiān
Places
B-6371 A320-214 China Eastern (Gansu branch) 2014-20
B-1609 A320-214 China Eastern (Gansu branch) 2014-22
B-2209 A320-214 China Eastern (Gansu branch) 2015-21
B-6873 A320-214 China Eastern (Gansu branch) 2016-

China Eastern launched its Gansu branch in March 2014 in cooperation with the local government. Gansu Province is located west in the country and has Lanzhou as capital city. This small branch operated 10 A320 in 2017.

The livery features Feitian or Flying Apsaras, which are female spirits of the clouds and waters in Hindu and Buddhist mythology. Some of these creatures can be seen on the walls of decorated caves in Gansu province (notably in the Mogao & Yulin caves).

Image  ©  Danny Yu (PEK)
Tags   Tourism, Traditional Patterns

Yunnan Peacock (purple)

Yunnan Peacock   云南孔雀
Purple variation
Places
B-5701 B737-89P China Eastern Yunnan 2012-16
B-5756 B737-89P China Eastern Yunnan 2013-17
B-5295 B737-79P China Eastern Yunnan 2012-16

This purple peacock pattern was unveiled after the orange variation, and its design was slightly different. The scheme was highlighting the Yunnan specifity while blending in the China Eastern brand. China Eastern Yunnan is indeed the second largest stand-alone unit of China Eastern after its Shanghai unit; it is the only unit to consistently display distinctive markings: Yunnan enterprise titles (雲南公司) appear in Chinese only on each of its aircraft. Back in the days of the first MU scheme, it was a green Yunnan peacock feather (the logo of China Yunnan Airlines).

The peacock is commonly used as a symbol in the Yunnan province. In Chinese decorative art, the peacock symbolizes dignity and beauty. Note B-5756 also had small "1000th Boeing for China" decals.

Images  ©  Amarase Pamarapa (BKK) & Danny Yu (PEK)
Tags   Traditional Patterns

Yunnan Peacock (orange)

Yunnan Peacock   云南孔雀
Orange variation
Places
B-6128 A330-343 China Eastern Yunnan 2012-15
B-1702 B737-89P China Eastern Yunnan 2014-16
B-1703 B737-89P China Eastern Yunnan 2014-16
B-1788 B737-89P China Eastern Yunnan 2015-
B-1789 B737-89P China Eastern Yunnan 2015-
B-1790 B737-89P China Eastern Yunnan 2015-
B-1791 B737-89P China Eastern Yunnan 2015-22
B-1792 B737-89P China Eastern Yunnan 2015-
B-1907 B737-89P China Eastern Yunnan 2013-16
B-1908 B737-89P China Eastern Yunnan 2013-17
B-5683 B737-86N China Eastern Yunnan 2012-16
B-5795 B737-89P China Eastern Yunnan 2013-16
B-5796 B737-89P China Eastern Yunnan 2013-17
B-6143 B737-89P China Eastern Yunnan 2015-
B-5094 B737-79P China Eastern Yunnan 2015-17
B-5096 B737-79P China Eastern Yunnan 2014-17
B-5243 B737-79P China Eastern Yunnan 2014-
B-5276 B737-79P China Eastern Yunnan 2015-
B-5293 B737-79P China Eastern Yunnan 2012-
B-5802 B737-79P China Eastern Yunnan 2013-
B-5807 B737-79P China Eastern Yunnan 2013-
B-5809 B737-79P China Eastern Yunnan 2013-
B-5815 B737-79P China Eastern Yunnan 2014-17
B-5816 B737-79P China Eastern Yunnan 2014-17
B-5817 B737-79P China Eastern Yunnan 2014-
B-5819 B737-79P China Eastern Yunnan 2014-
B-5820 B737-79P China Eastern Yunnan 2014-16
B-5821 B737-79P China Eastern Yunnan 2014-16
B-5822 B737-79P China Eastern Yunnan 2014-16
B-5828 B737-79P China Eastern Yunnan 2015-
B-6141 B737-79P China Eastern Yunnan 2015-

This peacock scheme was unveiled with the delivery of B-5683 to the airline's Yunnan subsidiary (formerly a branch) in July 2012. This scheme is highlighting the Yunnan specifity while blending in the China Eastern brand.

A total of 30 737s had the Orange Peacock scheme applied (17 -700s and 13 -800s), most of them new deliveries directly painted at the Boeing factory. One of the subsidiary's A330 flagship plane also gained the livery in 2012. However the peacock livery didn't become the Yunnan standard scheme, which remained the standard MU livery with a green peacock feather (the Yunnan subsidiary had 70+ planes circa 2017). When MU changed its livery to the current Eurowhite scheme, all distinctive Yunnan logos were lost, except for the red Chinese-only Yunnan enterprise (雲南公司) titles.

The peacock is commonly used as a symbol in the Yunnan province. In Chinese decorative art, the peacock symbolizes dignity and beauty. Note the additional auspicious cloud on the nose of the plane, another traditional Chinese pattern. A purple variation with a slightly different design was unveiled later.

Images  ©  Thomas Ingendorn (HND), JRF Spotter (HNL) & Liuqianlu (KMG)
Tags   Traditional Patterns

Magnificient Qinghai

Magnificient Qinghai   大美青海
Places
B-6029 A320-214 China Eastern (Northwest branch) 2012-14
B-9942 A320-214 China Eastern (Northwest branch) 2013-
B-9943 A320-214 China Eastern (Northwest branch) 2013-
B-6452 A319-115 China Eastern (Northwest branch) 2014-
B-6458 A319-115 China Eastern (Northwest branch) 2014-

Qinghai province in northwestern China is a montainous and very scarsely populated region. The three flowing lines at the rear of the fuselage represent the Yellow, the Yangtze and the Mekong rivers, which all originate from the Qinghai Sanjiangyuan Region, literally the region of the "Source of Three Rivers".

Although China Eastern does not run any Qinghai branch or unit like it does in many other provinces, these special liveries highlight the cooperation between the airline and the local provincial government. The aircraft painted in this livery belong to the Northwest branch based in Xi'an. B-6452 was used to inaugurate the Delingha Airport in Qinghai in 2014.

Image  ©  YanShuai (KMG)
Tags   Tourism