Air Macao to launch new route between Shenzhen, Taipei (Xinhua) Updated: 2004-02-25 15:00
Air Macao announced in Macao on February 25 that the company planned to open
a new passenger flight route linking Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong
Province to Taipei city in the island province of Taiwan via Macao on March 9.
The company said that it will launch a twice-daily service on the new route,
which will cut the flight journey between the two cities by half. Otherwise,
passengers leaving Guangdong for Taiwan would have to take land or ferry
transportation to the Macao International Airport or to Hong Kong before getting
on a plane.
According to the company's flight schedule, the flights each taking two hours
and 55 minutes will take off at 8:55 am and 4:30 pm daily.
Air Macao with a fleet of 11 passenger and three cargo planes operates
passenger and cargo services only in Asia, mainly the Chinese mainland and
Taiwan Province. The airline company is among the carriers that operate
semi-direct flights across the Taiwan Strait via Hong Kong and Macao.
The company opened charter flights on trial service between Shenzhen and
Taipei during the passenger travel spree of Spring Festival, China's Lunar New
Year, in January, which were warmly welcomed by Taiwan businessmen, since there
are hundreds of thousands of Taiwan people who have businesses in Guangdong.
The Macao International Airport functions primarily as a hub for semi-direct
flights between destinations in Taiwan Province and on the Chinese
mainland.
