China Southern Airlines confirmed it will buy five A-380 double-decker planes to be delivered between 2007 and 2010. Surprising no one, it said it would pay less than the list price of US$272.6m but would not say what it was paying. The aircraft are part of a US$3.2bn Airbus Industrie order of 30 planes for different China carriers, including 15 A-320s for China Eastern.