News / China Southern spreads its wings with increased air freight services into Europe

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China’s economic slowdown is having no apparent impact on China Southern Airlines (CSA), which continues to increase its freighter frequencies into Europe.

CSA launched a twice-weekly B777-200F service from its Guangzhou hub to London Stansted in June, the only direct freighter link between the UK and China and which also calls at Frankfurt, expanded to three a week from 1 August – an increase “we didn’t expect till October,” a spokesman for STN told The Loadstar.

CSA has also upped the frequency ...