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Cross-Straits chartered flights resume
www.chinanews.cn 2006-02-04 09:24:11
(Source: Xinhuanet)
SHANGHAI, Feb. 3 - A China Eastern Airlines passenger plane took off from
the Pudong Airport in Shanghai at 2:06 p.m. on Friday, marking the
resumption of cross-Straits direct chartered flights after the Spring
Festival holiday in Taiwan.
The passenger plane, with 244 people aboard, was heading for Taipei and
will return to Shanghai Pudong Airport at 9 p.m. Friday, carrying 282
passengers.
According to Shanghai's civil aviation administration, Saturday will
witness an air traffic peak in Shanghai, with six direct chartered
flights shuttling between the city and Taiwan.
Direct chartered flights between Guangzhou, capital of South China's
Guangdong Province, and Taiwan also resumed Friday.
A Boeing 737 plane of the Taiwan-based Maindrain Airlines departed Taipei
at 9 a.m. on Friday and landed at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport
at 11 a.m. the same day. The return flight left Guangzhou at 12:10p.m.
and arrived at Taipei at 2:00 p.m. thesame day. The occupation rates on
the two flights reached 80.25 percent and 96.91 percent respectively.
China Southern Airlines also operated two flights between Guangzhou and
Taipei on Friday. The two flights registered an occupation rate of 44.45
percent and 73.8 percent respectively.
Friday is the first day after the Spring Festival holiday in Taiwan but
people on the mainland will end their Lunar New Year holiday on Saturday.
According to an agreement reached between civil aviation associations of
both sides, the direct chartered flights are scheduled to run from Jan.
20 through to Feb. 13 this year. Six mainland airlines and six
Taiwan-based airlines are approved to fly the charter flights.
In all, there will be 72 round-trip flights, compared with 48 in 2005.
For the first time, the chartered flights this year will serve all Taiwan
residents bearing valid travel documents across the Straits, including
tourists and students. Previously, they served mainly businessmen.
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