Air France (AF, Paris CDG) and Lufthansa (LH/Frankfurt Intl) have both shown interest in a stretched version of the A380 known as the A380-900. It has wet-leased a MD-11F freighter from World Airways (WO/Atlanta) and an EMB-190 from Baboo (F7/Geneva). Air France will launch twice daily service from Paris CDG to Asturias on November 9 using Régional (YS/Nantes) ERJ-145s. It will however given up its Paris CDG-Tehran Imam Khomeini route on October 24. It has already given up its regional services from Bordeaux to Basle/Mulhouse and Montpellier, from Clermont-Ferrand to Metz/Nancy and Montpellier, from Geneva to Clermont-Ferrand, Nice and Toulouse and from London City to Zurich. Régional will give up its routes from Bordeaux to Geneva, from Clermont-Ferrand to Bordeaux and Milan Malpensa as well as from Nantes to Geneva on October 5. Brit Air (DB/Morlaix) will give up its Brest-Marseilles and Brest-Nantes services on October 25. Air France is reportedly planning to launch own high-speed rail services from Paris CDG to London and Brussels-Amsterdam in cooperation with Veolia as of 2010. It will terminate its codeshare agreement with TAM Linhas Aéreas (JJ/Sao Paulo Congonhas) on October 26. In other news, Air France-KLM is close to finalizing its cargo joint venture carrier with China Southern Airlines (CZ/Guangzhou) that is reportedly starting operations in mid-2009 with up to 10 freighters from Guangzhou, Shanghai and Tianjin.