The mainland Chinese civil aviation authorities has permitted 16 airlines in mainland China and Taiwan to arrange scheduled direct cross-strait passenger and cargo flights between the Mainland and Taiwan.

Based on the “Supplementary Agreement on Cross-Strait Air Transport”, the mainland has 27 destinations in total to manage scheduled flights to Taiwan. The most 25 destinations have all opened regular flights to Taoyuan Airport, Taiwan, while Fuzhou and Nanchang still run charter flights to Songshan, Taipei.

Taiwan has two destinations for scheduled flights, Taoyuan and Kaohsiung. Another two Songshan and Taichung will run charter flights.

There will be 32 regular routes and 14 charter flight routes between the Mainland and Taiwan. Nine passenger airlines and two cargo airlines will run 135 regular passenger flights and 14 regular cargo flights weekly from the 27 mainland destinations.