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China Southern Prepares To Retire A380 Fleet

Matthew Klint Posted onNovember 5, 2022November 13, 2023 6 Comments

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China Southern appears poised to retire its fleet of Airbus A380 superjumbo jets this weekend, marking another carrier to remove this aircraft from service.

China Southern Pulls Remaining A380 From Schedule – Is This The End?

While never a major A380 operator, China Southern maintained five A380 jets in its fleet. During the pandemic, it continued to operate the A380, representing the only A380 operator throughout much of 2020.

But earlier this year China Southern mothballed two of its five superjumbo jets in the California Mojave Desert, parked one in China and has not touched it in weeks, and now has pulled its final two jets from the schedule.

Earlier today, a China Southern A380 traveled from Amsterdam (AMS) to Guangzhou (CAN). Later today, China Southern will operate one final A380 trip to Los Angeles (LAX), under CZ327 and then CZ328 will take the A380 back to Guangzhou on Sunday night, November 6, 2022.

After that flight, the A380 is out of the schedule on all routes through the end of the scheduled (for the next 11 months). While no formal announcement has been made, Simple Flying reasonably suggests that this is a very strong sign the remainder of the fleet will be retired.

I had the chance to fly on a China Southern A380-800 from Guangzhou to Beijing in first class in 2017…and had a wonderful flight. In fact, China Southern is my favorite Mainland carrier (far better than my experiences on Air China and China Eastern) and I thought the onboard food and service was quite impressive and on the level of more highly regarded East Asian airlines.

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CONCLUSION

It appears that China Southern will operate its final A380 flight this weekend. Even if China Southern keeps 1-2 A380s active, it has already indicated it will retire these aircraft in the near future. This is a shame because the oldest A380-800 in the China Southern fleet was less than 12 years old. But as air travel evolves, it has become increasingly clear that there is little room for such a large jet.

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Matthew Klint

Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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6 Comments

  1. MES Reply
    November 5, 2022 at 5:54 pm

    Considering how the 380s operated under orders of the Communist Chinese to spread Covid throughout the West, they could offer dancing girls in the aisle and I could not care. Chairman Xi laughs at our unwillingness to investigate the origins of Covid; to continue to allow his flights to serve the USA.

    • J. P. Cooper Reply
      November 6, 2022 at 10:14 pm

      We know where COVID started, with the fake news from the USA about people getting COVID symptoms from Vaping long before anything showed up in China. To boot the town where vaping showed up was by the Military Lab Base. No one was allowed to investigate the lab. So we all know those with an ounce of brain it was started in that Military Lab USA. You can now cut all the BS Propaganda against China we know the USA Lies, Steals and Cheats just as the A$$ Pompeii said in Public.

  2. Mick Reply
    November 5, 2022 at 7:26 pm

    Last chance for a long haul review?

    • Matthew Klint Reply
      November 5, 2022 at 8:42 pm

      To China? Don’t think so, though I look forward to being able to return.

  3. Bingham Liu Reply
    November 5, 2022 at 9:20 pm

    My ONLY A380 experience have been on CZ327 and CZ328 from LAX a few years back. Flights were So Smooth you hardly even know when the jet is banking left or right. I’ve never seen any jet windows being as thick as on A380. Hence the reason for being so quiet and comfortable, inside.
    Sorry to hear that tomorrow CZ328 will be the Final A380 flight for China Southern Airlines. 12 years is too short for any commercial jet!

  4. Brian W Reply
    November 6, 2022 at 1:31 pm

    Idiotic move. Another example of airline executives putting profit over product – trying to make a few other dollars by taking away what is a superior flight experience to a tiny 787.

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