China Southern Airlines wants to part with its Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner

China’s largest airline, China Southern Airlines, will sell the Boeing 787-8 wide fuselage aircraft that it still has in its fleet in the face of the slow recovery of its international routes after the pandemic. Despite the competitive advantage of Chinese airlines, which do not have to bypass Russian airspace like Western ones, less than 30% of the routes to Europe are operated, so for months the Chinese airline sector has been turning to the n…

China Southern Airlines launched a tender on November 19 to sell its complete fleet of 10 Boeing 787-8 aircraft, including two GE Aerospace Genx-1b engines. The airline is maintaining the operations of the larger variant of the Boeing 787-9. The sale includes the first delivery of a 787 from the carrier, registered B-2725, received in May 2013. Aircraft deliveries are scheduled to be gradual between 2025 and 2026. In the tender, China Southern A…