An Airbus A380 plane on Wednesday arrived in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, on the second leg of its seven-day trial flight in China after Hong Kong last Saturday.

 

The plane, which seats 555, landed at Baiyun Airport of Guangzhou at 1:00 P.M. on Wednesday and will fly to Beijing and Shanghai as part of the trials, according to sources with Airbus China Ltd.

 

Airbus A380 started flight trials on November 13 and arrived in Singapore and Seoul over the following two days. The flights are aimed at testing its function and reliability in major world airports.

 

The final tests are expected to be completed in mid-December after the aircraft's last trial flights in South Africa, Canada, Australia and the South and North Poles.

 

So far five Airbus A380 planes have successfully completed their trial flights and Airbus has received orders for 166 of them from 15 customers, including an order for five from China Southern Airlines.

 

(Xinhua News Agency November 23, 2006)