China Southern Airlines seeks codeshare partnership with Finnair

Guangzhou-based China Southern Airlines signed a strategic cooperation memorandum with Finland's largest airline, Finnair, on Dec 19. 

The memo was signed in Guangzhou and the two airlines hope to establish a codeshare partnership on April 22, 2019, after receiving approval from authorities. 

Codeshare is a business arrangement in which two or more airlines publish and market a flight under their own airline designator and flight number as part of their published timetable or schedule. The flight is operated by a single airline, but flight tickets are sold by all cooperating airlines using their own designator and flight number.

The signing ceremony for the strategic partnership and codeshare cooperation between China Southern Airlines and Finnair is held in Guangzhou on Dec 19. [Photo/chinanews.com]

Under the arrangement, passengers of China Southern Airlines flights will be able to transfer from Helsinki to 15 European cities, including Copenhagen and Stockholm, while Finnair passengers will be able to transfer from Guangzhou to Nanjing, Chongqing, Sydney, Auckland and six other cities.