REG - Air China Ld - POLL RESULTS OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

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06/12/2024 07:00

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RNS Number : 1220P  Air China Ld  06 December 2024

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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)

 

 

POLL RESULTS OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

 

The board of directors (the “Board”) of Air China Limited (the “Company”) is pleased to
announce that the extraordinary general meeting (the “EGM”) of the Company
was held on 5
December 2024, and all the resolutions proposed at the EGM were duly passed.

References are made to (i) the notice of the EGM dated 18 November 2024 (the
"Notice"); and (ii) the circular of the Company dated 18 November 2024 (the
"Circular"). Unless otherwise specified herein, capitalised terms used in this
announcement shall have the same meanings as those defined in the Circular.

 

The Board is pleased to announce that the resolutions set out in the Notice
were duly passed by the Shareholders by way of poll at the EGM held at 11:30
a.m. on Thursday, 5 December 2024 at The Conference Room C713, No. 30, Tianzhu
Road, Airport Industrial Zone, Shunyi District, Beijing, the PRC. Except for
Mr. Patrick Healy and Mr. Xiao Peng who did not attend the EGM due to business
arrangements, all the other Directors of the Company attended the EGM.

 

RESULTS OF THE EGM

 

As at the date of the EGM, the total number of issued Shares of the Company
was 16,593,720,146 Shares. Shareholders and authorised proxies holding an
aggregate of 3,250,215,658 Shares were present at the EGM.

 

CNAHC and CNACG have material interests in the resolutions No. 1.01 to No.
1.04 proposed at the EGM, and therefore they were required to abstain, and
have abstained, from voting on such resolutions. CNAHC, CNACG, Cathay Pacific
and their respective associates have material interests in resolution No. 2
proposed at the EGM, and therefore they were required to abstain, and have
abstained, from voting on such resolution. As at the date of the EGM, CNAHC
and CNACG, in aggregate, held 8,516,024,075 shares of the Company; and Cathay
Pacific and its associates, in aggregate, held 2,633,725,455 shares of the
Company. Accordingly, at the EGM, the total number of Shares entitling the
holders to attend and vote on resolutions No. 1.01 to No. 1.04 was
8,077,696,071 Shares, and the total number of Shares entitling the holders to
attend and vote on resolution No. 2 was 5,443,970,616 Shares.

Save as disclosed above, none of the holders of any Shares was required under
the Hong Kong Listing Rules to abstain from voting on the proposed resolutions
at the EGM. There were no Shares entitling the holders to attend and abstain
from voting in favour of any resolutions proposed at the EGM as set out in
Rule 13.40 of the Hong Kong Listing Rules. No Shareholder has indicated
his/her/ its intention in the Circular to vote against or to abstain from
voting on any resolutions proposed at the EGM.

 

The poll results in respect of the resolutions proposed at the EGM were as
follows:

 

                                                                                              Votes of Shareholders

 Ordinary Resolutions
              For                                                                             Against        Abstain
 1.           To consider and approve the resolutions on the

              continuing related (connected) transactions between the Company and CNAHC and
              its subsidiary:
 1.01         To consider and approve the resolution on the renewal of the Government         3,248,893,347  707,901     614,410
              Charter Flight Service Framework Agreement between the Company and CNAHC and

              the application for the annual                                                  (99.9593%)     (0.0218%)   (0.0189%)

              transaction caps for 2025 to 2027.
 1.02         To consider and approve the resolution on the entering into of the New          3,248,174,027  1,434,701   600,930
              Properties Leasing Framework Agreement between the Company and CNAHC and the

              application for the annual                                                      (99.9374%)     (0.0441%)   (0.0185%)

              transaction caps for 2025 to 2027.
 1.03         To consider and approve the resolution on the renewal of the Media Services     3,248,392,447  1,240,501   576,710
              Framework Agreement between the Company and CNAMC and the application for the

              annual transaction caps for 2025 to 2027.                                       (99.9441%)     (0.0382%)   (0.0177%)
 1.04         To consider and approve the resolution on the entering into of the New          3,248,399,947  1,187,301   622,410
              Comprehensive Services Framework Agreement between the Company and CNAHC and

              the application for the annual transaction caps for 2025 to 2027.               (99.9444%)     (0.0365%)   (0.0191%)

                                                                                              Votes of Shareholders

 Ordinary Resolutions
              For                                                                             Against      Abstain
 2.           To consider and approve the resolution on the renewal of the ACC Framework      614,717,992  1,131,701   634,510
              Agreement between the Company and Air China Cargo and the application for the

              annual transaction caps for                                                     (99.7135%)   (0.1836%)   (0.1029%)

              2025 to 2027.

 

As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of the above resolutions,
the resolutions were duly passed as ordinary resolutions.

 

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, the auditor of the Company, acted as the scrutineer
for the vote-taking at the EGM and compared the poll results summary to poll
forms collected and provided by the Company.

 

The work performed by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in this respect did not
constitute an assurance engagement in accordance with Hong Kong Standards on
Auditing, Hong Kong Standards on Review Engagements or Hong Kong Standards on
Assurance Engagements issued by the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public
Accountants nor did it include provision of any assurance or advice on matters
of legal interpretation or entitlement to vote.

By order of the Board

Air China Limited

Xiao Feng   Huen Ho Yin

Joint Company Secretaries

 

Beijing, the PRC, 5 December 2024

 

As at the date of this announcement, the directors of the Company are Mr. Ma
Chongxian, Mr. Wang Mingyuan, Mr. Cui Xiaofeng, Mr. Patrick Healy, Mr. Xiao
Peng, Mr. He Yun*, Mr. Xu Junxin* and Ms. Winnie Tam Wan-chi*.

 

*  Independent non-executive director of the Company

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