Six Taiwan-based airline companies on Friday announced their
plans for direct chartered flights across the Taiwan Straits during
the Spring
Festival, Chinese Lunar New Year, according to local media in
the island.
The first flight by China Airlines, between Taipei and Shanghai,
is scheduled to take off at Taipei's airport at 7:45?AM on
January 20, 2006, and return from Shanghai airport at 12:10 the
same day.
Meanwhile, six mainland airlines will join in the chartered
flights across the Straits from next year's January 20 to February
13.
In related developments, the mainland's flag-carrier Air China
has published its Spring Festival package on chartered flights
across the Straits. The airlines plans to make 12 two-way flights
on Beijing-Taipei and Beijing-Kaohsiung routes from January 25 to
February 5.
Air China's prices are 4,960 yuan (about US$620) for one-way
business-class and 7,600 yuan (about US$950) for return
business-class, while the one-way and two-way tickets for tourist
class are sold at 3,100 yuan (about US$385) and 4,800 yuan (about
US$600).
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(Xinhua News Agency December 10, 2005)