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What we compareAir ChinaChina Southern Airlines
Country in archiveChinaChina
FoundedJuly 1, 1988July 1, 1988
Founder—Civil Aviation Administration of China (restructuring of its Guangzhou division)
HeadquartersShunyi District, Beijing, Beijing, ChinaGuangzhou, Guangdong, China
Name originThe airline's name is simply a short English form of its Chinese name 中国国际航空公司, which reads as China International Aviation Company. It was set up in 1988 as the part of the former CAAC given the main responsibility for intercontinental flights.The name is descriptive: China Southern places the country name beside the region where the airline began, as the former Guangzhou Regional Administration of CAAC in southern China. The sources used do not give a formal naming statement, so this is a plain reading of the name.
HighlightsBeijing Capital hub, Chengdu hub, Star Alliance membershipBoeing 777, Airbus A320, Airbus A380, Boeing 787-8
Earliest archived brand logo19881988
Latest archived logo20052001
Archived logo assets35

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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