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EVA to detail cancelations as flight attendants return

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Taipei Times
Date: Jun 26, 2019
By: Shelley Shan  /  Staff reporter

EVA Airways is today to announce which flights would be canceled from Monday to Friday next

Taipei International Airport (Songshan airport) EVA Air ground crew wear badges yesterday in support of the company as the flight attendants’ strike enters its sixth day.
Photo: Tony Yao, Taipei Times

week due to a strike by its flight attendants, Deputy Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) said yesterday, adding that the airline’s transport capacity this weekend is to exceed 50 percent of its regular capacity following the return of cabin crew from overseas.

The Ministry of Transportation and Communications yesterday held its seventh emergency response meeting as the strike entered its sixth day.

As planned, the airline yesterday maintained about 40 percent of its transport capacity, with 103 of 179 flights canceled, affecting about 19,000 travelers, Wang said.

The carrier on Monday announced which flights would be canceled on Saturday and Sunday, but its transport capacity on both days is to increase to 52 percent and 55 percent respectively, he said.
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