Flights to Taiwan first in decades
中国国际航空公司CA1087号航班29日上午7时40分左右接到起飞指令,飞机开始滑行,十几分钟后飞向蓝天,前往台北。这是56年来首架飞往台湾的祖国大陆民航班机,它的起飞宣告2005年台商春节包机正式启动。
Flight CZ3097 of China Southern Airlines flight docks at a tarmac in Taipei January 29, 2005. (newsphoto)
After a half-century without non-stop airline links between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, nine charter flights took place on Saturday under a cross-Straits agreement for Spring Festival travel.
Six mainland planes landed in Taipei and one in the southern city ofKaohsiungfor the first time in 56 years. Meanwhile, Taiwan"s China Airlines and EVA Airways operated two non-stop flights from Taipei to Beijing the first since 1949.
Flight CA1087 of the mainland"s flag carrier Air China departed from the Beijing Capital International Airport at 8 am for Taipei, becoming the first mainland commercial plane to take off.
Charter flight CZ3097 of China Southern Airlines, however, was the first mainland aircraft to land in Taiwan after a 90-minute journey between Guangzhou and Taipei.
"The dream that we had over the past 56 years finally came true today," said Chen Yunlin, minister of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, upon the arrival of CAL"s CI581 in Beijing.
Since 1949, the Taiwan authorities have imposed a ban on trade, postal and transport links with the mainland.
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