Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/02/05
By: Wang Cheng-chung and Flor Wang

Taipei, Feb. 5 (CNA) Nearly 1,000 Taiwanese students in China do not have plane tickets

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to return home for the Lunar New Year holiday in the wake of a cross-Taiwan Strait dispute over a controversial aviation route, a Taiwanese student association leader said Monday.

Chiu Rong-li (邱榮利), head of the China-based Taiwan Students Solidarity Headquarters, cited an internal survey as showing that about 1,000 Taiwanese students have not been able to book plane tickets home for the Feb. 15-20 holiday after their flights were canceled by China-based China Eastern Airlines and Xiamen Air.

The two airlines canceled 176 extra Lunar New Year flights after Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) delayed approval of their applications to operate the flights to protest China’s launch of four new air routes in early January.    [FULL  STORY]