On the 17th, the Civil Aviation Administration of the Ministry of Communications announced the specific charter flight regulations for 13 destinations across the Taiwan Strait.

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[Reporter Ding Yi/Report from Taipei] The Mainland Affairs Council of my country will open 10 regular destinations and 13 charter flight destinations on both sides of the Taiwan Strait starting from the 10th, but now national airlines only apply for three of them.

On the 17th, the Civil Aviation Administration of the Ministry of Communications also announced the specific charter measures for 13 cross-strait destinations. Airlines can apply for charter flights within seven days before and after holidays. Regular and charter flights.

Officials from the Civil Aviation Administration said that it is up to the operators to gradually apply for flights to cross-strait destinations based on market demand and considering their own operating capacity. China Airlines has applied to the Civil Aviation Administration for priority resumption of flights to Guangzhou and Shenzhen; Rong Airlines applied for Shenzhen.

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Li Qiyue, chairman of Innovation Travel Agency, said that charter flights are currently only allowed around special festivals, in consideration of the needs of Taiwanese businessmen to return home, but now the ten scheduled destinations have not yet resumed flying, because only Chinese and Taiwanese people and business travelers , it is difficult to support the transportation capacity of so many routes across the Taiwan Strait.

Li Qiyue emphasized that the demand for traffic between the two sides of the strait is not large because tour groups are not open, and tour groups on both sides of the strait are the basic volume. If the cross-strait transport capacity is to be restored, the government must reduce political interference and open group passengers as soon as possible.

He believes that Taiwan originally banned Chinese group tourists from coming to Taiwan because of the epidemic. Now that the epidemic has slowed down, it is okay for Taiwan to unilaterally allow Chinese tourists to come to Taiwan first.

The Executive Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Communications Qi Wenzhong stated that the opening of group passengers is based on the principle of "reciprocity and mutual benefit". China has now opened up to 60 countries, but Taiwan is not included. Therefore, there are still many issues to be discussed about the opening of group tourists from both sides of the Taiwan Strait. discuss.

A few days ago, it was reported that "the Civil Aviation Administration of China only accepts applications for five destinations for a gradual and orderly approach." The Civil Aviation Administration clarified that it did not accept applications for only five destinations, and also expressed that it was happy to see ten regular destinations gradually resumed.