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Taiwan to launch regular flights with China

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan plans to launch regular flights with China in the first half of 2009, an official said Friday.

Lee Wen-lung, director of the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA), told Broadcasting Corp of China that “authorities” have instructed CAA to achieve normalization of air flights across the Taiwan Strait before summer “Although the two sides have not opened talks, all the preparations have been made,” the radio quoted Lee as saying.

Taiwan launched holiday charter flights with China in 2003, turned them into weekend charter flights on July 4, 2008, and expanded them into daily charter flights on December 15, 2008.

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