China Southern to Offer Adelaide Charter Service in Feb 2013

[Rory Delaney]

Update at 0540GMT 09JAN13

China Southern Airlines in February 2013 is to offer 2 round-trip charter service on Guangzhou – Adelaide route, on board Boeing 777 aircraft. The charter service is part of the Skyteam member’s Chinese New Year extra flights program, which also includes extra charter flights to Cairns.

CZ6017 CAN2245 – 0945+1ADL 777 07FEB13/14FEB13
CZ6018 ADL1125 – 1725CAN 777 08FEB13/15FEB13

http://airlineroute.net/2013/01/09/cz-adl-feb13/

[Stefan Perkas]

They are actually charters as part of a tour organised to visit the Harbin Ice festival.

http://www.acma-sa.com/docs/4Z%20Harbin%20Ice%20Festival%202013.pdf

[Rory Delaney]

Only going off what airlineroute.net posted :)

[MarkR]

They are actually charters as part of a tour organised to visit the Harbin Ice festival.

http://www.acma-sa.com/docs/4Z%20Harbin%20Ice%20Festival%202013.pdf

The charter is backfill, the main driver being the increase in demand for CNY, with ADL joining CNS for the first time for the charters inbound.

[Rory Delaney]

China Southern's Adelaide service today for the Harbin Ice festival is operated by B-2056 which is in the SkyTeam livery. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/B2056

[Steve S... 2]

There were two China Southern flights into Cairns today - an A330-200 and a 777-200.

[Matthew Ayto]

B-2053 and B-6542 if I am not mistaken.

[Stefan Perkas]

China Southern's Adelaide service today for the Harbin Ice festival is operated by B-2056 which is in the SkyTeam livery. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/B2056

Here are a couple of shots of B-2056 departing Adelaide on Friday afternoon...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8105/8456178490_4750f108b4_n.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53284949@N05/8456178490/)

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8392/8455080411_c7985507cc_n.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53284949@N05/8455080411/)

[Montague S]

having been in that part of the world in winter, I find it hard to believe that anyone would be on that flight... -30C is usual maximum daytime temp.

[Stefan Perkas]

The aircraft did rotate early. I would have had a few people going to see the harbin ice featival tour.