Master thread to document China Southern's entry (merged threads)
 

Aeroflot says CZ will become member of SkyTeam tomorrow, on November, 1:
The earning tables have already been loaded.

Flying Blue hasn't updated their earning tables yet

DL Skymiles - ditto

www.skyteam.com - still nada

Anyone else?

There has been a post by somebody here (2 weeks ago?) indicating that OK+ had sent them a newsletter or something that indicated CZ flights would fully accrue miles since tomorrow. I am a member of OK+, but haven't gotten around to switching to the e-newsletter, and the website doesn't say anything.
I think it's a good bet to say that China Southern will be a member of Skyteam effective 01/11/2007. ^

By the way, the earnings SU have posted for CZ are little short of pathetic!!! 30% COS for business?? :eek:

For the record. If you go to skyteam.com and search itn's that would involve CZ, you will find CZ flights come up in the suggested itin's listed as Skyteam flights. I noticed that yesterday or the day before. Not sure when it changed. It wasn't like that a couple of weeks ago.

FWIW. It IS already 1/11 in CAN.

I haven't been able to get http://www.cs-air.com or http://www.csair.com to come up at all for weeks.

I don't know if it's new or not but CZ flights earn EQMs for NW WP and CO OP respectively though they're not under the ST grouping.

SU is wrong.

Official: Starting from Nov 1st, CZ will have FFP partnership with following skyteam airlines: KE/DL/OK/SU/AZ/AM (AM will start from Nov 15th) alone with existing partner NW/KL/AF/CO

Skyteam.com uploaded CZ flights a month ago~;)

CZ passed final review last week. The entrance date is still set to Nov15. There will be a large ceremony in Beijing, China. All CEOs from alliance partner will participate this ceremony.

Try http://www.flychinasouthern.com instead. However, in checking routes, I have yet to come across anything other than full coach or business fares, regardless of how far out the date is that I am checking. For that, you might have to go to an Asian-based travel web site.

I have also been unable to use the other China Southern sites you listed.

Just downloaded the new timetable from skyteam.com and the China Southern logo is now included

The master ST logo isn't updated on the site yet, but I suppose that'll happen eventually (like on the 15th maybe). And CSA has a new logo that looks a lot like GlaxoSmithKleine's.

Strange how easy and quick the CZ join went relative to all the others recently. Go figure.

The SkyTeam timetable is still not 100%, like it only shows LAX-CAN on Sundays, but it'll get there.

I tried to find China Southern timetable on their website and cannot get the site to change to English. It's an option, but when you select it, it churns and then returns results in Chinese.

Haha! Think they may have taken into account the amount of Becherovka I consume on board in designing this logo. There are all sorts of therapeutic herbs in that drink. :D


The China Southern websites are worse than useless.

Great. Will they be a full member or just associate?

I have never seen them mentioned as a candidate for associate partner status. I would say full member.

The world's 9th largest airline;)

I know they're masive, just wondering whether they wanted to be fully integrated into the alliance.