Aviation/Aircraft De-Icing & Anti-Icing Fluids

Kilfrost, the global market leader in the supply of de/anti-icing products for the aviation industry, is supporting China Eastern Airlines’ (CEA) winter operations, with further technical training to take place in October.

China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited has its headquarter located in Shanghai. As one of the three major airlines in mainland China, it flies a fleet of more than 460 long-haul and short-haul aircraft. CEA serves nearly 80 million travellers annually and ranks among the world’s top five airlines in terms of passenger transportation volume. As an official member of SkyTeam, China Eastern has extended its flight network from Shanghai to 1024 cities in 178 countries via close cooperation with SkyTeam member airlines.

The number of foreign airlines handled by CEA from its headquarters in Shanghai has increased to more than twenty over recent years, with all of these demanding de/anti-icing services during the winter months. CEA is subject to audits from foreign airlines and the De-Icing/Anti-Icing Quality Control Pool (DAQCP) every year and so needed to demonstrate compliance with international standards for de/anti-icing aircrafts.

In 2008, CEA began using Kilfrost’s de/anti-icing fluids to ensure the safety of its flights, even in the harshest weather conditions. With assistance from Kilfrost, a de/anti-icing manual for complying with the Association of European Airlines’s (AEA) standards was compiled. In 2010, Kilfrost helped CEA to set up its own laboratory where de/anti-icing fluids could be analysed to ensure their quality. Kilfrost has also delivered a series of training sessions to CEA’s laboratory staff on the testing methods available.

Steve Tu, General Manager of Kilfrost’s South China Distributor, Galaxy said: “Customers use Kilfrost’s fluids due to their high quality and exceptional performance. Kilfrost is also able to assist its customers with their training and regulatory compliance needs and thanks to this support, CEA is now one of a very smaller number of airlines in China that has set up its own laboratory for testing de/anti-icing products.”

Nathan Zhang, Senior Vice President (Asia) at Kilfrost added: “At Kilfrost, we pride ourselves on our long history of providing effective de/anti-icing solutions to the global aviation industry. We are able to combine reliable products and industry knowledge with value added services such as training, making us ideally placed to offer guidance on winter operations to major airlines and terminals across the globe.”