Focus Taiwan
Date: 05/07/2020
By: Yu Hsiao-han and Lee Hsin-Yin

Taipei, May 7 (CNA) Air France announced Thursday that it will cancel all direct flights between Taipei and Paris, with effect from June 1, citing financial issues due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

The carrier said it will terminate its three round-trip services per week between the two cities, after it temporarily suspended the flights on March 8 this year amid the pandemic.

In a letter to its business partners, Air France said the airline industry has been among those that have taken the brunt of the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic since early 2020.
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