Starting on August 31, the number of weekly flights between Hangzhou and Taiwan will be increased to 23 to meet increasing market demand.

A top executive at Hangzhou’s Xiaoshan Airport was quoted as saying that the Hangzhou-Taoyuan and Hangzhou-Kaohsiung flights will be regular lines, while the Hangzhou-Songshan and Hangzhou-Taichung flights will be chartered lines.

The executive the flight ticket fares are expected to drop as a result of the increased flights.

Direct flights between Hangzhou and Taiwan began on December. 15, 2008. As of August 23, 2009, Xiaoshan Airport has operated a total of 508 flights to Taiwan, carrying 200,000 passengers total on flights with an occupation rate as high as 79.5 percent.

Editor: Guo Changdong