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Old Sep 21, 2014 | 4:36 am
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Originally Posted by jxl07
Hey Everyone!

So I just recently booked a ticket through CheapTickets.com on China Southern Airlines. They issued an Air China Record Locator. The flight itinerary doesn't say anything about "Flight operated by..." and as far as I know, Air China and China Southern Airlines are two competitor airliners belonging to separate Alliance Groups.

Anyone seen this before?

Thanks,
John
What is the flight number? I will help you look into this.

Sure, CA and CZ are competitors in the nominal sense, but the Chinese government is the largest shareholder in both companies, and both are descendants of CAAC (hence the common systems).
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