Qingming cross-straits flights begin
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-03-31 10:06
The first of 42 round-trip charter flights across the Taiwan Straits,
designed for the Qingming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, arrived in Shanghai
Pudong Airport at 1:30 p.m. March 30, 2007. Taiwan-based China Airlines has run
the unprecedented flight for the Qingming Festival over the past 57 years. In
previous years, the charter flight service had only been for Spring Festival,
traditional Chinese New Year. The service has now been expanded to other
traditional festival holidays, including Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival
and Mid Autumn Festival. [Xinhua]
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