About Hunan Airlines (Air Travel)
This airline has been through three names, which is why it can be hard to find. It began flying in May 2016 as Hongtu Airlines, took the English name Air Travel in 2018, and became Hunan Hongtu Airlines — Hunan Airlines for short — in December 2019. Schedules and booking sites still use all three, and its IATA code A6 has stayed the same throughout.
It is a regional carrier based at Changsha Huanghua, flying narrow-body aircraft on routes within China that the majors serve thinly or not at all.
Hunan Airlines (Air Travel) flights from Beijing Daxing
Changsha from Daxing — the Hunan provincial capital and the airline's home base. Changsha is well served from Beijing overall, so this is a competitive route rather than a monopoly one; Air China, Beijing Capital, China Eastern, China Southern, Hebei Airlines and XiamenAir all fly it from PKX as well.
Hunan Airlines (Air Travel) serves one destination from PKX: Changsha.
Route lists change with the summer and winter schedules, and frequencies change more often than that. For the flights operating today, check the live arrivals and departures boards.
Planning your trip
At Beijing Daxing, Hunan Airlines (Air Travel) checks in at Departures level 4. Check-in closes 30 minutes before departure on domestic flights and 45 minutes before departure on international ones — Daxing is a large building, and the walk from check-in to a far gate is a real part of your timing.
- Look for the flight under Air Travel or Hongtu as well as Hunan Airlines — all three names are in circulation.
- Changsha is around 5.5 hours from Beijing by high-speed rail, which is a genuine alternative on this route.
- With six other carriers on the same city pair from PKX, a cancellation here is usually recoverable the same day.
Getting to the airport takes planning of its own: the Daxing Airport Express and the intercity railway are the fastest options from central Beijing, with taxis and private transfers as the door-to-door alternatives. The airport guide covers terminal layout, security and what is open landside.