Enter the Dragon Boat Festival flights

SHANGHAI: A Mandarin Airlines flight will leave Taipei for Shanghai at 7:30 am today, the first of a series of cross-Straits charter flights laid on for the Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on Sunday.

The flight is scheduled to arrive at Pudong International Airport at 10:10 am. An hour later, it will return to Taipei's Taoyuan Airport.

Passengers flying between Taiwan and the mainland had to travel via Hong Kong or Macao during the non-festival days.