Okay Airlines (in simplified Chinese奥凯航空公司) is China’s first airline established by private company. The base of Okay Airlines is located in Tianjin Binhai International Airport. The IATA code of the Okay Airlines is BK, while the ICAO code is OKA.

Okay Airlines was founded in June 2004. In February 2005, it obtained an operating license from the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China and in March 11, 2005, Okay Airways has performed its maiden voyage. In December 2, 2008, arguments arose between the shareholders and the management authority of the company, therefore, due to the fears that this problem would affect the normal operation of the company, the China’s civil aviation authority required the Okay Airlines to suspend flights for one month between December 15 to January 15 of the next year. Eventually, things get settled down and the company was allowed to provide flights again.

In fact, Okay Airlines is having a lot of business partners all over the world and Fedex is one of them. FedEx relies on Okay Airlines to provide flights resources to provide the domestic express service in China and the two parties had signed an agreement which was valid for 5 years. The new domestic express business was put into operation in June 2007 in cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Foshan, Ningbo. According to the service term, the team would be providing delivery service the next day after they receive the documents from the clients. However, as mentioned above, the Okay Airlines was suspended for flights in late 2008 and so, Fedex terminated the cooperation with Okay Airlines. Now, it is expected that Okay Airlines would keep on negotiating with the Fedex to seek any possibilities to resume their cooperation.

In fact, in order to provide better services, Okay Airlines are introducing some new aircrafts which are invented by Chinese company. This lowers the cost for acquiring aircrafts and so more money could be spent on making the services of the company better and better. Thus, it is expected that Okay Airlines would be more successful in the future.