China Southern Likely to Lead 787 For Sydney and London

China Southern Airlines will expectedly receive their first batch of Boeing 787 Dreamliner by the end of the current year. The Chinese Airline is expected to take the title from Qantas Airlines from calling in the first Dreamliner ever to land on Australian turf. Qantas cancelled its massive order of Dreamliners from Boeing after reporting a net annual financial loss in the current year of its operations.

China Southern has voiced its plans of designating its first Dreamliner to operate flights to London as well as Sydney flights from its hub in Guangzhou. The airline will not be the first among commercial airliners in Asia to receive Boeing’s latest aircraft in the market. Japan’s JAL and All Nippon Airways were the first customers of the 787 Dreamliner in the entire aviation market.

Only last month, Ethiopian Airlines rose to the intercontinental domain after receiving its first 787 at Addis Ababa. Ethiopian Airlines will utilize it for an internal African route to cover almost all of the continent’s major destinations, as well an intercontinental route connecting Africa with Europe and Asia.