Cross-Straits services

In an important step towards restoring regular flights across the Taiwan Straits, the Chinese mainland and Taiwan last week announced an expansion of cross-Straits air services.

Chartered passenger flights across the Straits will now run during the Tomb Sweeping Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, in addition to the previously agreed upon Lunar New Year holiday.

Six airliness on both sides will operate a combined 168 flights a year, according to an agreement between the mainland's Cross-Straits Aviation Transport Exchange Council and the Taipei Airlines Association.

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