The China Southern Airlines Company Limited said it has finalized plans to start a Dhaka-Guangzhou flight on Aug 2, 2009, a delay of almost a month from its original plan to launch the service on July 5.

Gao Bo, China Southern Airlines Bangladesh representative, told Xinhua, that all the processes have finished and they already started to sell tickets in Bangladesh from July 10, The Economic Times reported.

"We couldn't open the flight on July 5 because the Bangladesh Civil Aviation Authorities didn't complete concerned formalities on time which led to the delay," he said, adding that there will be three flights at the beginning. "We fly from Guangzhou to Dhaka on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday and fly from Dhaka to Guangzhou on Monday, Wednesday and Friday," he added.

Gao Bo said the airline would deploy a Boeing 737-800 on the Guangzhou-Dhaka route,and the flying time is around three and a half hours.

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