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 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, 28 April 2016, for the purpose of, among other matters, considering and approving the first quarterly results of the Company for the three months ended 31 March 2016.

By order of the Board

Air China Limited

Rao Xinyu　Tam Shuit Mui

Joint Company Secretaries

Beijing, the PRC, 20 April 2016

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

* Independent non-executive Director of the Company