Mainland, Taiwan agree on 36 weekend chartered flights

Source: Xinhua  |   2008-6-13  |     ONLINE EDITION

Chen Yunlin (R), chairman of Chinese mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS), and Chiang Pin-kun, chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), shake hands after signing the agreements on cross-Strait weekend charted flights and mainland tourists' traveling to Taiwan, in Beijing, China, today.

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THE Chinese mainland and Taiwan today agreed on starting weekend chartered flights across the Taiwan Straits.

Chen Yunlin, chairman of the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS), and Chiang Pin-kun, chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) signed a minutes of talks on weekend chartered flights in Beijing.

The service, scheduled to start from July 4, will include 36 return flights for every weekend, from Friday to Monday, and the number will increase according to demands, the minutes said.

Mainland and Taiwan airliners will operate 18 flights respectively, it said.

The mainland will open five terminals first, which is Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xiamen and Nanjing while Taiwan will have eight terminals, it said.



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