RESIGNATION OF NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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中國國際航空股份有限公司

AIR CHINA LIMITED

(a joint stock limited company incorporated in the People’s Republic of China with limited liability)

(Stock Code: 00753)

RESIGNATION OF NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

The board of directors (the "Board") of Air China Limited (the "Company") announces that the Board received a resignation letter from Mr. John Robert Slosar on 12 October 2019. As Mr. John Robert Slosar has indicated his intention to retire in November 2019 as the chairman of the board of directors and a director of Cathay Pacific Airways Limited ("Cathay Pacific"), Mr. John Robert Slosar will resign from his position as a non-executive director of the Company with effect from 6 November 2019.

Mr. John Robert Slosar has confirmed that he has no disagreement with the Board and that he is not aware of any matter relating to his resignation that needs to be brought to the attention of the shareholders of the Company.

The Board wishes to take this opportunity to express its sincere gratitude to Mr. John Robert Slosar for his significant contribution to the development of the Company during his tenure of office.

 By Order of the Board

Air China Limited

Zhou Feng Tam Shuit Mui

Joint Company Secretaries

Beijing, the PRC, 14 October 2019

As at the date of this announcement, the directors of the Company are Mr. Cai Jianjiang, Mr. Song Zhiyong, Mr. Cao Jianxiong, Mr. Xue Yasong, Mr. John Robert Slosar, Mr. Wang Xiaokang*, Mr. Liu Deheng*, Mr. Stanley Hui Hon-chung* and Mr. Li Dajin*.

* Independent non-executive director of the Company