「两年无薪：西安百名飞行员、空姐连日维权（2025.12.29—31）」2025年12月29日至31日，上百名飞行员和空乘人员连续多日聚集在陕西省政府等地，要求解决长期被拖欠的工资及社会保障问题。参与维权者均来自同一家公司——幸福航空。
据员工透露，幸福航空已连续两年未向千余名一线员工正常发薪，飞行员的小时费也长期被拖欠。此外，公司近四年来一直未依法缴纳医保、社保及公积金。为维持基本生存，不少飞行员被迫转行，从事送外卖、跑网约车、做家教等工作，甚至远赴海外从事建筑装修和快递等体力劳动；空乘人员则多靠摆摊或直播带货度日，巨大的收入与身份落差令员工倍感失落。而更令员工不满的是，在公司长期欠薪、全面停航的情况下，公司高管却仍在领取薪酬。
幸福航空成立于2008年，由中国航空工业集团与东方航空合资设立，总部位于陕西西安，定位为国产支线飞机的示范运营商，主力机型为新舟60。2025年4月底，幸福航空突然全面停航，至今未能复航。天眼查数据显示，仅2025年1月至4月，公司就八次被列为被执行人，最高单笔执行标的达1.24亿元。综合多方信息，幸福航空当前整体债务规模据称约为50亿元。
过去，“国产飞机”曾是幸福航空的核心卖点，但如今，“国产飞机”却被认为是危机的“罪魁祸首“，在经营崩盘之际，高层将矛头直指赖以起家的机型，声称新舟60“先天不足”。但不少员工认为，长期的治理失序、资金使用不透明以及管理决策失当，才是企业陷入困境的根本原因。
2025年9月，公司管理层曾向员工承诺，若年底前未能引入新的投资方，将由地方政府“兜底”。然而，这一预期很快落空。2025年12月，公司高层明确表示“政府不会兜底”，并首次公开提及企业可能进入“破产清算”程序。此前的相关承诺随之搁置，员工对企业未来的最后期待也在新年到来时彻底破灭。
Two Years Without Pay: Hundreds of Pilots and Flight Attendants in Xi’an Stage Sustained Rights Protests (2025.12.29–31)
From December 29 to 31, 2025, hundreds of pilots and cabin crew gathered for several consecutive days at locations including the Shaanxi provincial government, demanding solutions to long-overdue wage arrears and unpaid social security benefits. All participants are employees of the same company—Joy Air.
According to employees, Joy Air has failed to pay regular wages to more than a thousand frontline staff for two consecutive years, and pilots’ hourly flight pay has also been withheld for prolonged periods. In addition, the company has not made legally required contributions to medical insurance, social insurance, or the housing provident fund for nearly four years. To sustain a basic livelihood, many pilots have been forced to change professions—delivering food, driving ride-hailing vehicles, or working as private tutors; some have even gone abroad to take up manual labor such as construction, renovation, or courier work. Cabin crew members, meanwhile, often rely on street vending or livestream e-commerce to get by. The stark gap between their current incomes and their professional identities has left many employees deeply disheartened. What has further fueled resentment is that, despite prolonged wage arrears and a complete suspension of operations, company executives have continued to receive salaries.
Founded in 2008 as a joint venture between the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) and China Eastern Airlines, Joy Air is headquartered in Xi’an, Shaanxi. It was positioned as a demonstration operator for domestically produced regional aircraft, with the MA60 as its core fleet. In late April 2025, Joy Air abruptly suspended all flights and has yet to resume operations. Data from Tianyancha show that between January and April 2025 alone, the company was listed as a judgment debtor eight times, with the largest single enforcement claim reaching RMB 124 million. Based on information from multiple sources, Joy Air’s total liabilities are currently estimated at around RMB 5 billion.
In the past, “domestically produced aircraft” was Joy Air’s core selling point. Today, however, it has come to be viewed as the “culprit” behind the crisis. As operations collapsed, senior management shifted blame to the very aircraft model on which the airline was founded, claiming that the MA60 suffers from “inherent deficiencies.” Many employees disagree, arguing that long-standing governance failures, opaque use of funds, and flawed management decisions are the true root causes of the company’s predicament.
In September 2025, company management promised employees that if no new investor could be introduced by the end of the year, the local government would provide a financial backstop. That expectation quickly fell apart. In December 2025, senior executives made it clear that “the government will not step in,” and for the first time publicly raised the possibility that the company could enter “bankruptcy liquidation.” Previous commitments were shelved, and as the New Year arrived, employees’ last hopes for the company’s future were completely shattered.