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 (the "Board") 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 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, 30 March 2017, for the purpose of, among other matters, considering and approving the results of the Company for the financial year ended 31 December 2016 and considering the recommendation of a final dividend (if any) .

By order of the Board

Air China Limited

Rao Xinyu Tam Shuit Mui

Joint Company Secretaries

Beijing, the PRC, 17 March 2017

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