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January 11, 2009, Sunday
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MORE chartered passenger flights will operate across the Taiwan Strait during the forthcoming Lunar New Year holidays, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
The increased number of services follows an agreement between aviation authorities of the mainland and Taiwan.
So far, 13 airline companies from the two sides have applied for additional flights during the Spring Festival, which starts on January 26.
Eight mainland airline companies would be allowed to run 61 temporary chartered passenger flights and five Taiwan operators will add 68 flights during a 29-day-long period, from January 12 to February 19.
In mid-December last year, mainland and Taiwan airline companies began operating chartered flights on a regular basis, thanks to a historic breakthrough achieved by the two sides.
It lifted a decades-old ban on direct links in trade, mail and transport.
More passenger flights are needed for the Spring Festival holidays as there will be a large number of people traveling across the strait for family reunions.
Aviation links across the strait were cut in 1949, when the then Kuomintang Regime withdrew to Taiwan, after its troops were defeated by the Communist Party of China's forces. Since the 1980s, the mainland had repeatedly called for resuming direct links across the strait.
Chartered passenger flights across the strait started in 2003, but the two sides had to hold talks every year to decide on next year's flight schedule.
The increased number of services follows an agreement between aviation authorities of the mainland and Taiwan.
So far, 13 airline companies from the two sides have applied for additional flights during the Spring Festival, which starts on January 26.
Eight mainland airline companies would be allowed to run 61 temporary chartered passenger flights and five Taiwan operators will add 68 flights during a 29-day-long period, from January 12 to February 19.
In mid-December last year, mainland and Taiwan airline companies began operating chartered flights on a regular basis, thanks to a historic breakthrough achieved by the two sides.
It lifted a decades-old ban on direct links in trade, mail and transport.
More passenger flights are needed for the Spring Festival holidays as there will be a large number of people traveling across the strait for family reunions.
Aviation links across the strait were cut in 1949, when the then Kuomintang Regime withdrew to Taiwan, after its troops were defeated by the Communist Party of China's forces. Since the 1980s, the mainland had repeatedly called for resuming direct links across the strait.
Chartered passenger flights across the strait started in 2003, but the two sides had to hold talks every year to decide on next year's flight schedule.
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