CSA Signs Code-Sharing Agreement With Vietnam AirlinesChina Southern Airlines (CSA) Tuesday signed a code-sharing agreement with Vietnam Airlines in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province.Under the agreement, each partner is expected to fly 120 passengers for the other every week. CSA, which operates Guangzhou-Ho Chi Minh-Guangzhou air route and offers three return flights each week will sell air tickets on the air route run by the Vietnamese airways using CSA's code name "CZ". Vietnam Airlines which runs the Ho Chi Minh-Guangzhou-Ho Chi Minh air route and has two return flights a week, will sell air tickets using the code name of "VN" on the air route operated by the CSA. Information on the code-sharing flights will be shared by both companies via a computerized air ticket booking system. A CSA spokesman said that the alliance will help expand marketing networks and create more favorable conditions for the two companies in the future. CSA is one of China's three leading air company groups. It has 101 planes including 81 Boeings, 20 Airbus planes, and operates 334 domestic and overseas air routes connecting Guangzhou with 85 other cities around the world. The number of passengers traveling on the Guangzhou-HO Chi Minh- Guangzhou route has increased by an annual rate of 50 percent since 1998. In the first six months of the year, 22,000 passengers took this route. |
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