China Airlines adds more cross-Strait routes

Taiwan’s China Airlines (CAL) has unveiled three new route cross-Strait routes to mainland China.

On the national carrier commenced direct flights from Taipei to Changchun and Hefei, in China’s Jilin and Anhui provinces respectively.

CAL will now fly three times a week (Mondays, Wednesdays and Sundays) from Taipei’s Taoyuan International Airport to Changchun, using a Boeing 737-800, while the Hefei service will run every Wednesday and Sunday using a twin-aisle Airbus A330-300 aircraft.

Then a day later on Thursday 3 July, CAL commenced flights to Yantai, in eastern China’s Shandong province. Flights on this route will operate every Monday and Thursday direct from Taoyuan Airport using a Boeing 737-800.

By the end of July, CAL plans to increase its cross-Strait services to 152 weekly flights covering 32 separate routes.

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