China Southern receives approval to operate A380 Chengdu-Beijing service

China Southern Airlines reportedly received approval to deploy A380 equipment on the Chengdu-Beijing sector with the proposed service tentatively scheduled to commence in Sep-2012 (Chengdu Business Daily, 31-Jul-2012). As previously reported, the carrier recently confirmed plans to deploy A380 equipment on daily Guangzhou-Los Angeles sector from 12-Oct-2012, marking the carrier's first international route with the A380.