Tsai's travel trick will not avail her

It seems the Tsai Ing-wen administration has forgotten the inconvenience it caused Taiwan compatriots during the Spring Festival holiday last year, when it prevented some airlines from providing additional flights.

It opposed a new route they were using near the middle line of the Taiwan Straits, declaring it to be a threat to the island's security. In all, nearly 200 flights, about one-third of the additional holiday flights were canceled during the annual rush season, which meant many Taiwan residents who work on the mainland had to pay nearly three times the normal fare, or spend a whole day traveling because they had to make a detour to a third place to go back home.

In fact, the air route launched in January last year connecting Shanghai and Guangzhou is exclusively for civil aircraft and in line with all international and civil aviation conventions and it proved indispensable in relieving the air traffic pressure between the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta during the Spring Festival travel rush last year.