China Southern from London to Guangzhou

Guangzhou, China’s third largest and most industrial city, is to be joined to London for the first time.  Skyteam member China Southern Airlines will (from 6 June) offer a three times per week two-class Airbus A330-200 Heathrow service with a flight time of around 10 hours. 

China Southern is already established in western Europe with services from Guangzhou to both Amsterdam and Paris Charles de Gaulle.  The airline is listed on the Hong Kong, Shanghai and New York Stock Exchanges.  It currently operates around 350 aircraft mainly Airbus and Boeing, plus a number of Embraer E series on regional routes.

Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (CAN) is China's 2nd busiest and the world's 19th busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic, with 40,975,673 people handled in 2010.  Qatar Airways tells AERBT that it is very pleased with its new services from Doha but curiously Lufthansa will pull the route from Frankfurt at the end of March.  The city, formerly Canton, is in the Pearl River Delta about 75 miles north of Hong Kong, which itself is served by Air New Zealand, British Airways, Cathay Pacific and Virgin Atlantic. www.flychinasouthern.com

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