FLIGHT FUROR: A 2015 deal stated that only southbound flights would be permitted on route M503 and the extension routes would not be activated ahead of negotiations
Taipei Times
Date: Jan 05, 2018
By: Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
Beijing should immediately stop all flights on four civil aviation routes that were launched 
“China must be held accountable for any serious consequences that would affect the cross-strait relations should it continue to allow the flights to operate,” MAC Minister Katharine Chang (張小月) said at a news conference in Taipei.
The aviation routes are northbound flights on the north-south M503 route, which is very close to the median line of the Taiwan Strait, as well as three east-west extension routes — W121, W122 and W123 — along the southeast coast of China.
China unilaterally created the routes in 2015 on the grounds that they would be used to alleviate flight congestion on its A470 route. [FULL STORY]