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Qantas and China Southern now codesharing
News has just come in to Migration Alliance from Qantas Corporate:
Qantas and China Southern airlines have signed a codeshare agreement!
This is the very first reciprocal codeshare agreement between the two airlines. Great news for Australia as ot means that there will be a lot more travel and many more options for Qantas customers who want to travel to China. This deal willl also increase and improve tourism opportunities for Australia. With new tourists come new visas, and with new visas, come new temporary migrants and with new temporary migrants come more permanent visa applications. From little things big things groow.
As part of the agreement Qantas customers are able to book China Southern flight services from Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth to Guangzhou. Guangzhou is China's biggest transport hub and third largest city. Qantas customers will then also be able to travel on Qantas codeshare services to another four onward locations (cities) China - Xiamen, Fuzhou, Ürümqi and Kunming.
Qantas has a current strategy to offer premium options for customers flying between Australia and Asia, in particular China. For the ever-increasing plethora of customers travelling to China for business and pleasure, the latest Qantas / China Southern codeshare will make their travel easier and expand the available destinations.
Qantas states:
'This announcement follows other recent initiatives to boost the strength of Qantas' offering into Asia, including schedule changes to improve onward connections, lounge upgrades in Singapore and Hong Kong and a major upgrade of our A330 fleet starting from late 2014.'
Qantas is in the fantastic position of having strategic relationships with the three biggest airline carriers in China:
1. China Southern
2. China Eastern
3. Through oneworld, Cathay Pacific.
All things going well, Qantas says that it would like the new codeshare services with China Southern to be available for booking and travel in the early months of 2014.
Great news for Chinese investors coming to look at Australia as a location for a $5 million investment (SIV) as there are now more flights to the major capital cities of Australia.
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Wednesday, 04 December 2013
Bing, can you send through some information on the safety record for China Southern? You might have a point.
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Wednesday, 04 December 2013Wednesday 9 June 1999 Southern China
Flightnumber: 8877
Narrative:
A big storm was passing the Zhanjinag Airport as the Boeing 737 approached the runway. The flight crew did not strictly comply with the check list, nor did they set the QNH correctly due to poor crew coordination. After passing the runway threshold at 400 m, the aircraft hit the ground and bounced. It floated for 330 m and hit the ground again 15 m away from the right side of the runway. The landing gear collapsed and the plane suffered irreparable damage.
The airplane operated for the Shantou division of China Southern Airlines.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19990609-0
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YOU THINK THIS IS GREAT NEWS?
Perhaps you may reconsider that thought after you pay the premium ticket for a Qantas flight based upon it's unequaled safety reputation, only to find out you end up on a Chinese run airline who's safety reputation leaves something to be desired.
Not for me thank you very much Quantas