China - Taiwan traffic grows

CHINA’S CAAC (General Administration of Civil Aviation) is to allow nine home airlines to operate 135 return passenger flights and 14 cargo flights to Taiwan each week.  China Eastern Airlines is the biggest winner with 29 services from eight mainland destinations.  Air China and China Southern Airlines will each operate 27 passenger flights a week.  Xiamen Airlines gets 11, Hainan Airlines ten, and Sichuan Airlines, Shandong Airlines and Shenzhen Airlines each will run seven flights.  In addition Shanghai Airlines was offered ten services but this was before the China Eastern takeover.  China Airlines launched the first cross-straits cargo charter flight between Taiwan and the mainland late last year.  This was the first direct traffic between the two since 1949.  Previously, flights had to be routed via Hong Kong or Macau. www.caac.gov.cn/English

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