{"id":26621,"date":"2026-02-17T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=26621"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:30:51","slug":"surprise-ba-reduces-china-southern-redemption-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2026\/02\/17\/surprise-ba-reduces-china-southern-redemption-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise: BA reduces China Southern redemption price"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>China Southern, one of the three major Chinese airlines, left the SkyTeam alliance ages ago and quickly picked up an partnership with British Airways. The progress however was rather slow, and it wasn\u2019t until the second half of last year that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2025\/07\/06\/finally-ba-and-china-southern-opens-reciprocal-redemption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">bilateral award redemptions finally launched<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/china-southern-banner.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"441\" height=\"114\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/china-southern-banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/china-southern-banner.jpg 441w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/china-southern-banner-300x78.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The pricing levels were in accordance with Cathay Pacific, and it was definitely not cheap &#8211; the shortest one-way flight would cost 9,750 Avios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some very positive news: I\u2019ve just discovered that redemption prices have dropped. You can now book China Southern award tickets from as low as 6,500 Avios. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Beijing \u2013 Changchun 6,500<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beijing \u2013 Shenyang 6,500<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beijing \u2013 Shanghai 10,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beijing \u2013 Sanya 12,500<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beijing \u2013 Urumqi 12,500<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beijing \u2013 Seoul 6,500<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beijing \u2013 Tokyo 12,500<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Shanghai \u2013 Qingdao 6,500<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shanghai \u2013 Guiyang 10,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shanghai \u2013 Sanya 12,500<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shanghai \u2013 Seoul 6,500<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shanghai \u2013 Taipei 6,500<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shanghai \u2013 Tokyo 10,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Guangzhou \u2013 Xiamen 6,500<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guangzhou \u2013 Sanya 6,500<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guangzhou \u2013 Kunming 10,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guangzhou \u2013 Urumqi 14,500<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guangzhou \u2013 Hanoi 6,500<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guangzhou \u2013 Bangkok 10,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guangzhou \u2013 Singapore 12,500<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It appears the pricing has been aligned with the standard partner chart (such as Malaysia Airlines), which makes short-haul flights significantly cheaper. Long-hauls have actually become more expensive, but they were of poor value anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taxes and surcharges are fixed on China&#8217;s domestic routes (decided by the aviation bureau) and typically below \u00a310 per segment. The fees on international routes tend to very reasonable too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although only economy class redemption is available at this time, the cost is now genuinely low, and China Southern tends to release decent availability. If you ever find yourself in a position to visit China or transfer there, there&#8217;s now a new option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Southern, one of the three major Chinese airlines, left the SkyTeam alliance ages ago and quickly picked up an partnership with British Airways. The progress&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-airways","category-china-southern"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26621"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26626,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26621\/revisions\/26626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}