{"id":8352,"date":"2019-10-22T14:02:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T14:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-reading\/you-can-now-fly-between-mainland-china-and-taiwan\/"},"modified":"2019-10-22T14:02:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T14:02:42","slug":"you-can-now-fly-between-mainland-china-and-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/you-can-now-fly-between-mainland-china-and-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Now Fly Between Mainland China and Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eleven airlines — six from the mainland and five from Taiwan — will operate 144 cross-Strait return flights next month, reflecting an agreement to expand charter flights that have run during four traditio<\/em>nal festivals to every weekend.<\/p>\n

The six mainland carriers are Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Xiamen Airlines and Shanghai Airlines.<\/p>\n

The Taiwan carriers are China Airlines, Mandarin Airlines, EVA Air, UNI Air and TransAsia Airways, according to a notice on the website of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).<\/p>\n

Every weekend, round-trip flights will operate between five mainland cities and eight Taiwan destinations.<\/p>\n

Most of the return flights will run on Fridays and Sundays with 67 return flights on Fridays and 40 on Sundays in July, according to the CAAC.<\/p>\n

The mainland’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits chairman Chen Yunlin and the Taiwan-ba<\/em>sed Straits Exchange Foundation  chairman Chiang Pin-kun signed two agreements on flights and tourism on June 13 after the organizations resumed talks after nine years.<\/p>\n

The two sides agreed to start weekend charter flights across the Taiwan Strait from July 4. So far, the service has o<\/em>nly operated during four major Chinese festivals.
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