China Southern joint venture deepens British Airways relationship

China Southern Airlines has taken its partnership with British Airways up a notch, entering into a joint venture agreement with the carrier. The wide-ranging partnership will cover codesharing, frequent flyer programmes, as well as passenger benefits, says China Southern. At the onset, the codesharing agreement will cover 14 domestic and international UK and Chinese routes. BA will put its code on China Southern-operated flights between Guangzhou, Sanya, Wuhan, Zhengzhou and London. China Southern, meanwhile, will codeshare BA’s London-Beijing Daxing, as well as London-Shanghai Pudong flights. China Southern states that more routes will be added in the future. The latest joint venture builds on a 2017 agreement through which BA put its code on flights to 4 domestic points in China. <br/>