China Southern Airlines has opened its new Paris sales/marketing office in preparation of launching its new Paris-Guangzhou direct service on June 28.

Located at 125, Avenue des Champs Elysées, 75008 Paris, China Southern Airlines' new local reservation numbers are (33) 820-886-688 and (33) 1-53-679-999 and fax (33) 1-49-520-606. The new China Southern Airlines' Paris office is in a prime location above Citibank on the Champs Elysées and less than 100m from the l'Arc de Triomphe.

The office's new General Manager is Mr. Wang Weibin with Mr. Chai Haibo, Deputy General Manager and Mr. Pierre Stephane Austi, Commercial Director.

China Southern Airlines will be launching its new direct Paris-Guangzhou service under a code share with Air France, four times weekly, every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday (China Southern flight number CZ347). The flight departs from Guangzhou at 2:30 p.m. and arrives at Paris at 9:20 p.m. (local time), and on the same day it departs from Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport at 10:50 p.m. (local time) and arrives at Guangzhou at 4:20 p.m. the next day.

In addition, China Southern Airlines and a branch of Air France-Servair have signed a catering contract for all departing flights from Paris.