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Weekend cross-Straits chartered flight takes off with mainland tourists
(Xinhua/Agencies)
Updated: 2008-07-04 09:20

 

Weekend cross-Straits chartered flight takes off with mainland tourists

The first passenger to step out the plane from the first group of mainland tourists of the day to arrive in Taiwan from Guangzhou, is surrounded by reporters at the Taoyuan International Airport July 4, 2008. Historic flights between the island and the mainland began taking off on Friday, ushering in the first wave of what could become millions of mainland visitors to the island as cross-Straits relations warm. [Agencies]

The first cross-Straits weekend charter flight from China's mainland to Taiwan landed at Taipei Taoyuan airport early Friday Morning.

The historic flight, which took off at 6:31 am from Guangzhou, capital city of China's southern Guangdong Province, arrived at about 8:10 am after a 1,124-km journey.

The China Southern Airlines flight, from the southern city of Guangzhou, is the first of 36 flights to be launched this weekend.

More than 100 mainland tourists aboard the Airbus A330 of China Southern Airlines (CSA) became the first group of people on a sight-seeing tour allowed to Taiwan amid warming cross-Straits ties.

Another four weekend chartered flights also took off Friday morning from Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Xiamen respectively.

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