Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport was criticized yesterday for sending a traveler who fainted after arriving from China to a regional hospital that lacked key emergency equipment, the latest in a series of complaints about the airport's management.

A woman passenger departing from the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport for Singapore was asked to leave a flight of Jetstar Asia Airways after she refused to comply with a flight attendant's instructions to place her carry-on handbag under her front seat.

A jobless young woman from Taoyuan County yesterday began her short-term goal of traveling the island and hugging 10,000 people by the end of her trip.

Twenty-five angry passengers on a Hong Kong-Taoyuan flight refused to leave the plane yesterday after being delayed for five hours by a runway shutdown at Hong Kong International Airport.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will test a self-management health plan at two international airports to help prevent travelers from bringing diseases into Taiwan amid an increase of dengue fever cases in the country.

Taiwan is scheduled to host its first LPGA golf tournament next year in Taoyuan County, with top female professional golfers to compete for US$2 million in prize money.

Aviation authorities have taken the black box and conducted preliminary interviews with the crew of an Eva Airways plane that had three tires blow out during landing late Thursday night at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, but the cause of accident has yet to be determined, officials said yesterday.

Stung by a string of mishaps at Taiwan's main international airport, authorities there hope to bring back former airport workers to help give the facility a new lease on life, the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) said yesterday.

A lawmakers yesterday accused aviation police of illegally soliciting plane tickets from local airline companies to sponsor their bonus program for outstanding officers.

Taoyuan International Airport yesterday announced an expansion of its check-in services by adding six more airlines for which passengers can check their luggage at a Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) station to increase travel convenience and control traffic flow at the airport.