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)](https://i1.wp.com/www.eyeontaiwan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/E317KA01H_2015資料照片_copy1-300x205.jpg?resize=300%2C205)
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]