{"id":33533,"date":"2006-06-16T07:16:50","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T23:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2006\/06\/16\/china-and-taiwan-agree-on-more-flights\/"},"modified":"2006-06-16T07:16:50","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T23:16:50","slug":"china-and-taiwan-agree-on-more-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2006\/06\/16\/33533\/","title":{"rendered":"China And Taiwan Agree On More Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China's General Administration of Civil Aviation (CAAC) announced that the mainland-based Cross-Strait Aviation Transport Exchange Council and the Taipei Airlines Association had agreed on the framework of chartered flights for festivals and special occasions.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Chartered flights will operate during Qingming, or the tomb-sweeping festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, in addition to the Chinese lunar new year season, according to the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides also agreed to open chartered flights for emergency medical rescue, first aid for the handicapped and special chartered cargo flights.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese experts called on Taiwan authorities to give up political concerns about the early realization of direct air links with the mainland.<\/p>\n<p>Guo Zhenyuan, a researcher with the China Institute for International Studies, said chartered flights across the Taiwan Strait for festivals and special cases failed to meet public demand for direct transport links on both sides.<\/p>\n<p>\"The new agreement by aviation organizations of the Chinese mainland and Taiwan will undoubtedly promote cross-Strait exchanges, but the progress is a bit slow and the advances are small,\" Guo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China's General Administration of Civil Aviation (CAAC) announced that the mainland-based Cross-Strait Aviation Transport Exchange Council and the Taipei Airlines Association had agreed on the framework of chartered flights for festivals and special occasions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}