All good things must come to an end and the June 2025 China Trip is one of them. The trip back to the States today is on China Southern’s long-haul workhorse, the 777-300ER. Seating 361 passengers in a 28J/28W/305M configuration, the big blue-tailed Boeings fly primarily within China on high-demand domestic routes and across the Pacific to New York, Toronto, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Server: Solo
Airline: China Southern Airlines
Aircraft: Boeing 777-300ER
Origin: Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, Guangzhou, China (CAN)
Destination: Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California (LAX)
Flight Number: CZ327
Route: ZGGG-KLAX
Seat: 11A (Business)
Time En Route: 12 Hours 19 Minutes
Viewing our jet from Terminal 2 in the evening light
Taxiing out for takeoff. Overall, the general impression of the China Southern 777 business class hard product is good. It’s no Cathay Pacific, but it’s substantially better than the China Eastern 777 we took to Shanghai a couple months back.
Lifting off from Guangzhou for the roughly 12 and a half-hour journey across the Pacific
Settling back in a comfortable business class seat as we reach the mouth of the Yangtze River near Shanghai
After a good 9 hours of sleeping, we’re awake in the late afternoon over the Eastern Pacific, not too far from Mendocino County, California
Cruising over Oakland shortly before beginning our intial descent into LA
Coming in across the 405 to Runway 24R for landing
Evening landing in Los Angeles
Taxiing to our gate past the American Airlines maintenance hangar
Deplaned at the TBIT as the Sun goes down
