Want China Times
Date: 2015-07-04
By: CNA
The aviation authorities of Taiwan and China have decided to boost the number of
Airplanes at Kunming Changshui International Airport. (File photo/China Times)
regularly scheduled nonstop flights across the Taiwan Strait to 890 per week from the current 840, the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) said Friday.
The two sides have agreed to add Huaian, Yangzhou, Nantong and Yiwu along China’s eastern coast, Yanji in northeastern China and Kashgar in western China, as new destinations to be served by cross-strait routes, according to the CAA.
Each side will be allowed to operate three flights per week between Taiwan and those six destinations, which will bring the total number of Chinese destinations covered in the cross-strait flight network to 61, the CAA said.
The other new regularly scheduled flights will be 14 flights a week previously operated as charters, it said. [FULL STORY]
