Date of Board Meeting

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 2811, Air China Building, 36 Xiaoyun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, 26 April 2012, for the purpose of, among other matters, considering and approving the first quarterly results of the Company for the three months ended 31 March 2012.

By order of the Board

Air China Limited

Rao Xinyu Tam Shuit Mui

Joint Company Secretaries

Beijing, the PRC, 16 April 2012

As at the date of this announcement, the directors of the Company are Mr. Wang Changshun, Ms. Wang Yinxiang, Mr. Cao Jianxiong, Mr. Sun Yude, Mr. Christopher Dale Pratt, Mr. Ian Sai Cheung Shiu, Mr. Cai Jianjiang,Mr. Fan Cheng, Mr. Fu Yang*, Mr. Li Shuang*, Mr. Han Fangming* and Mr. Yang Yuzhong*.

* Independent non-executive director of the Company