Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/02/03
By: Bien Chin-feng and Romulo Huang

Taipei, Feb. 3 (CNA) A special plan to ease air travel congestion

Airport e-Gates. (CNA file photo)

at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport during the Lunar New Year holiday kicked off smoothly Wednesday, with some 110,000 passengers passing though the airport, authorities said.

The measures were designed specifically to cope with an expected increase in passengers before, during and immediately after the nine-day Lunar New Year holiday, which starts Feb. 6, authorities said.

Air travel is expected to peak between Feb. 3-6 and Feb. 10-17, with passenger volume estimated at 140,000 per day.     [FULL  STORY]