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China Northwest Airlines Co. Ltd. (中国西北航空公司) was an airline based in the People’s Republic of China with its headquarters in Xian. It started operations in 1989. In 2002 the airline along with China Yunnan Airlines merged with China Eastern Airlines.When CAAC broke itself up into six major airline corporations China Northwest was one of them. The airline was based in Xian and operated a fleet of BAe 146 Tupolev Tu-154 Airbus A310 and later Airbus A320 aircraft.