Air China (CA, Beijing Capital) and its competitor China Southern Airlines (CZ, Guangzhou) are planning to cooperate on the route from Beijing to Paris CDG from the end of October if they receive government approval for plans to use China Southern A380-800s on the route currently served by Air China on a daily basis with B777-300ERs. Air China's CEO Cai Jianjiang has confirmed such plans according to Air Transport World. China Southern currently uses its first three A380-800s on domestic flights from Beijing to Guangzhou and Hong Kong International. It will start deploying the aircraft on its first international route from October 12 operating daily between Guangzhou and Los Angeles International. Currently China Southern serves Paris CDG daily with an A330-200 from Guangzhou while Air China also serves the French airport from Shanghai Pudong four times weekly with A340-300s in addition to the daily flight from Beijing. In recent years, China Southern has struggled to be allocated international traffic rights out of Beijing. It currently only operates international flights from there to Amsterdam Schiphol, Dubai International, Jeddah International, Seoul Gimpo, Seoul Incheon and Tashkent International.