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Taiwan Songshan Airport To Start Shanghai Flights Late 2010
2010. 18 January
by Alex Pevzner Flights between Taiwan and Shanghai
currently take off and land at Shanghai Pudong International Airport, and Taiwan has been asking China since last year to
add flights to and from Hongqiao.
(foxbusiness.com)
Flights between Taipei Songshan Airport and Shanghai's Hongqiao International Airport will likely
start late this year, officials at Taiwan's civil aviation regulator said Monday.
The two sides operate 270 cross-strait passenger flights a week, but China has capped flights to Shanghai at 56 a week because of the congested air space around the city.
The island is still waiting for China to agree to add Hongqiao, said a public relations official at Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration, who declined to be named.
"We also hope they will give us good time slots for Hongqiao," she said, adding any agreement must also be cleared by Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation and China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits.
Taiwan hopes to complete the work to upgrade Songshan late in 2010 before the flights to Hongqiao begin, she said.
An official from the Taiwanese aviation regulator's planning division said the expected traffic congestion around Shanghai during the World Expo from May through October will likely delay the start of flights between the Songshan and Hongqiao airports.
The official declined to be named.
Copyright © 2009 Dow Jones Newswires
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