Direct flight between Taiwan and the mainland
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-01-20 11:33

A boy waits to board a plane to Shanghai at Taiwan's Chiang Kai Shek International Airport January 20, 2006. Hundreds of passengers took off on charter flights across the Taiwan Straits for this year's Spring Festival on Friday. The plane belonging to Taiwan-based China Airlines left Taipei shortly after 8 a.m. and landed in Shanghai at 10:34 a.m. It returns to Taipei in the afternoon, bringing Taiwanese home for the biggest holiday in the Chinese-speaking world. [Reuters]