China Southern Airlines is preparing to inaugurate its brand-new direct flight path from Shenzhen to Mexico City on May 11, marking a substantial turning point in flight in between China and Latin America.
The Shenzhen-Mexico City path will likewise mark China Southern's very first direct flight to Latin America, and will be China's longest direct global flight path, in addition to the only direct guest flight path to Mexico and Latin America from the Chinese mainland.
Running two times weekly, this path will be serviced by Airbus A350 wide-body airplane, with flight numbers CZ8031/2 for the round-trip journey.
Flight details. Screenshot by That's
Departures from Shenzhen are set up every Tuesday and Saturday at 9pm regional time, with arrivals in Mexico City at 11pm regional time, with a flight period of around 16 hours.
Return flights from Mexico City will leave at 1am regional time, with a stopover in Tijuana, and show up in Shenzhen at 12.20 pm regional time.
Market experts explain that China Southern's choice to introduce this path from Shenzhen is tactical, thinking about the city's management in development, especially in the fields of brand-new energy lorries and electronic devices.
With Huawei currently having actually developed a subsidiary in Mexico and BYD's strategies to complete the place of a Mexican factory by year-end, the capacity for increased service ties in between the 2 areas appears.
Mexico ranks 2nd amongst the leading 10 locations for Chinese car exports, with an export volume of 415,000 cars in 2023, according to information from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.
Formerly, direct flight paths in between the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, and Mexico run by Hainan Airlines and AeroMexico assisted in travel to locations such as Mexico City, Cancun and Guanajuato in 2018 and 2019.
Hainan Airlines and AeroMexico paths are no longer in operation.
It's notable that, while the world's longest direct flight path is run by Singapore Airlines from Singapore to New York, covering a range of 15,332 kilometers with a flight time of roughly 19 hours, the Shenzhen-Mexico City path run by China Southern will rank 8th on the list of the world's longest flight paths.
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[Cover image via the Consulate General of Mexico in Guangzhou]
