Grande aumento dei voli diretti fra Cina e Taiwan

[malpensante]

Taiwan strait direct flights to be realized soon; Chinese carriers ready to fly

Thursday November 6, 2008
The dream of a direct routing across the Taiwan Strait is closer to reality following the signing of an agreement between Beijing's Assn. for Relations Across the Tawian Strait and Taipei's Strait Exchange Foundation.
The deal, which will take effect in 40 days, will allow carriers to bypass Hong Kong airspace and reduce flight time, operating costs, fuel burn and emissions.
Taiwanese carriers will have access to 16 cities in mainland China in addition to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xiamen and Nanjing. They are Chengdu, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Dalian, Guilin, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Fuzhou, Qingdao, Changsha, Haikou, Kunming, Xi'an, Shenyang, Tianjin and Zhengzhou. The number of permitted weekly roundtrip flights will rise from the current 36 to 108.
Mainland carriers welcomed the move. Air China Party Secretary Tan Zhihong said the carrier will add 10 A330s and 737-800s to its cross-strait operation that currently comprises flights to Taipei from Beijing and Shanghai. He said the newly permitted flight path will save 90 min. on PKE-TPE and 80 min. to/from Shanghai and that CA will save CNY30 million per year operating 737-800s on the new PEK-TPE routing.
Xiamen Airlines MD Yang Guanghua said his airline will place 10 737-800s expected to be delivered in 2009 on cross-strait routes in order to meet growing demand.
The agreement allows 60 return cargo flights per month operated by 2-3 mainland and 2-3 Taiwanese airlines. Mainland carriers will have access to Taipei and Kaohsiung while their counterparts will fly to Shanghai and Guangzhou.

by Katie Cantle
ATWOnline

 

[Wolf359]

Buono!

Ottimo! Sia le destinazioni che aumentano di 16 unità e le frequenze da 36 a 108! :astonished:

 

[i-givo]

Si riducono le paure di Taiwan?
Al di là del mancato riconoscimento ufficiale della Repubblica Nazionalista cinese da parte della Repubblica Popolare (ched vede Taiwan come una provincia ribelle), uno dei motivi degli scarsi collegamenti (e mancanza assoluta fino a non molto tempo fà) era il timore che i voli diretti dalla cina continentale potessero servire per occultare sbarchi di truppe d'invasione.
Restail fatto che i legami commerciali tra le due entità sono enormi e imprescindibili, quindi i voli diretti assolutamente necessari.
Non parlano però di voli di linea prettamente tali. Mi sembra di ricordare che i voli diretti in effetti fossero sempre e solo charter, soprattutto nel periodo del capodanno cinese...
Continueranno ad essere tali? anche solo formalmente?

 

[AF-KL]

nuovi voli tra Taiwan e China mainland

Il recente accordo che ampia il traffico aereo diretto tra Taiwan e PR China, aumentando frequenze e riducendo i tempi di volo con l'introduzione di flight path diretti (evitando cosi' l'allungamento dei tempi di volo dovuti alla necessita' di sorvolare Hong Kong), vede molti players sia cinesi mainland che taiwanese interessati ad operare nuovi air links.

Con effetto 15DEC2008 ecco il piano voli previsto da China Airlines

7 weekly (daily) Taipei Taoyuan - Shanghai Pu Dong
1 weekly Kaohsiung - Shanghai Pu Dong
3 weekly Taipei Taoyuan - Beijing (Day 135)
4 weekly Taipei Taoyuan - Shenzhen (Day x236)
2 weekly Taipei Taoyuan - Hangzhou (Day 15)
2 weekly Taipei Taoyuan - Nanjing (Day 36)
2 weekly Taipei Taoyuan - Guangzhou (Day 26)
1 weekly Taichung - Hangzhou

 

[dreamliner]

Voli diretti tra Cina e Taiwan

December 15, 2008
Taiwan and China launched direct daily passenger flights, new shipping routes and postal links on Monday for the first time since 1949 in a further thaw of once icy relations between the two political rivals.

The new links underscore how quickly ties have warmed under the island's pro-China President Ma Ying-jeou, who took office in May on a pledge to improve cooperation with Beijing.

"The direct routes to China can mean two things," Ma said at a ceremony at Taiwan's Kaohsiung port.

"One is that the two sides are reconciling and not going back to the animosity and conflicts of the past. The other is the economy -- sea and air cargo links can greatly reduce time and expenses."

Flights between Taiwan and China, which are just 160 km (100 miles) apart, were previously routed via a third region, usually Hong Kong or Macau, because of a ban on regular direct links.

Cargo shipments also detoured through third countries or regions, raising costs for Taiwan firms doing business in China.

"(The links) should make the economies of both sides more competitive," said Alex Chiang, an associate politics professor at National Chengchi University in Taipei.

Taiwan and China agreed in November to the new links, which include up to 108 direct daily flights a week, 60 new cargo flights a month and a raft of new sea cargo routes.

Monday's daily charter flights, an increase from the Friday-through-Monday routine that began in July, will become scheduled daily flights next year, Ma has said.

China-Taiwan trade was worth USD$90 billion in 2007, according to official Taiwanese data, while there are 750,000 Taiwanese investors in the mainland.

China has claimed sovereignty over self-ruled Taiwan since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949 and vowed to bring the island under its rule, by force if necessary.

Tensions brought the two sides intermittently to the brink of war over the last six decades in what is considered potentially one of the most dangerous flash points in Asia.

But attention has turned to cementing ties since Ma took office. China's Xinhua News agency said in a commentary the new links would inject energy into cross-strait economic relations.

The links aim to boost two-way trade and build political trust, but are not expected to immediately lift Taiwan's moribund economy from the grip of the global financial crisis.

The financial crisis has raised the stakes for Ma, with Taiwan's export-driven economy contracting in the third quarter. But few short-term gains are expected from the new links, which could end up denting the image of the island's president, who some critics accuse of getting too cozy with Beijing.

The five Taiwan airlines and nine from China face low demand for their direct flights because of the economic downturn. Analysts also say legal curbs to investment remain in China.

Between 1991 and 2007, Taiwan approved investments of USD$65 billion in China, according to official data, although experts say the total could exceed USD$100 billion because of capital routed to China through third-party locations such as Hong Kong.

(Reuters)

 

[i-givo]

rilanciano una notizia "vecchia" di alemno alcune settimane....
Così ora smettono di farsi un giro sui cieli di HKG
Però se non erro questa nuova procedura di rotte vale per i voli da Taiwan verso Shangai, Pechino ecc.
Non tanto per Shenzen ecc perchè comunque "questi passano già sullo spazio aereo di HKG e Macau"
Speriamo che la Cina smetta di pensare che Taiwan sia una provincia ribelle (perchè così la considerano e definiscano) che Taiwan entri a far parte dell?ONU ..e che Taiwan cessi avere il timore che ogni volo da mainland China stia portando orde di miliatri pronti ad invadere ed occupare Taiwan (un'altra delle motivazioni, da parte del governo dell'isola, per non avere voli diretti)

 

[malpensante]

Chinese/Taiwanese airlines get another government boost with expanded cross-strait deal

Tuesday April 28, 2009

Airlines on either side of the Taiwan Strait are expected to reap further benefits following the Sunday signing of an expanded agreement by the Taipei-based Strait Exchange Foundation and the Beijing-based Assn. for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait that will more than double the number of permitted flights.

Direct cross-strait flights will be increased from the current 108 per week to 270. The increase likely will take affect in July. In addition, Taiwanese carriers will be granted access to six new cities--Hefei, Harbin, Nanchang, Guiyang, Ningbo and Jinan--bringing to 27 the number of mainland gateways available. Airlines flying to Taiwan from Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Xiamen no longer will be required to bypass Hong Kong, while an additional route to the north has been created to alleviate crowding aboard the increasingly popular services.

The frequency increase is not as high as was anticipated in February but still is significant (ATWOnline, Feb. 13). Cross-strait routes enjoy load factors of more than 80%, higher than nearly all domestic mainland and international routes despite the global economic and industry downturn.

"The cross-strait routes are 'golden' routes, as they are the most profitable," EVA Air mainland spokesperson Ke Jincheng said. "The supplementary agreement has encouraged us a lot and is very positive news for our carriers hit hard by the global financial crisis." EVA's first quarter was its first three-month period in the black since the third quarter of 2007 (ATWOnline, April 27).

Industry analysts pointed out that China Eastern Airlines should benefit most from the expanded agreement, as the Shanghai-based carrier has bases in Hefei, Nanchang, Ningbo and Jinan while China Southern Airlines has bases in Harbin and Guiyang and Air China has a base in Jinan. CEA Board Secretary Luo Zhuping said the carrier's cross-strait routes have operated at 80%-90% capacity and that it plans to fly to Taiwan from the new cities.

On the cargo front, the new agreement permits belly freight for the first time and boosts cargo flights from the current 60 per month to 112.

by Katie Cantle
ATWOnline