Want China Times
Date: 2015-08-09
By: CNA

An amendment to an aviation agreement between Taiwan and the Philippines is expected

China Airlines and EVA Airways planes at Taoyuan International Airport, March 17. (File photo/Kao Hsing-yu)

to dramatically increase flights and open up tourism between the two countries, Taiwan’s representative to the Philippines said Saturday.

Gary Song-Huann Lin told CNA the Philippines already made it easier last month for Taiwanese to travel there when it launched an Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) — an entry permit that can be obtained online — and he said this new revision would further boost exchanges.

Under the agreement, the first revision of the aviation pact for the first time in a decade, the number of passenger seats between the two countries will increase from 4,800 a week at present to 20,000 per week this year.     [FULL  STORY]