英闻天下——531 China Southern Airlines Expanding

 　　Asia's largest airline, China Southern, is to fly A380s between Sydney and its base in Guangzhou in the second half of this year.

 

　　The airline has mostly been flying its five A380s on some of the shortest routes in the world for superjumbos, from Guangzhou to Shanghai and Beijing.

 

　　The airline is still deciding on the exact timing¹ this year for the entry of the superjumbos.

 

　　The airline has been the most aggressive of the Chinese carriers in its Australian expansion.

 

　　It has 35 weekly return flights to four cities, and plans to boost it to 55 services within two years.

 

　　China's three major state-owned airlines including China Southern posted sharp drops in annual profit for 2012 last month.

 

　　For more on this, we're joined on line now by Ben Cavender, Associate Principal China Market Research.

1 timing   

n.时间安排，时间选择

参考例句：

• The timing of the meeting is not convenient.会议的时间安排不合适。
• The timing of our statement is very opportune.我们发表声明选择的时机很恰当。