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China Southern Airlines is optimistic about its Taiwan business because of growing demand for cross-strait flights, and the carrier hopes the number of such flights will increase in the future, according to company President Tan Wan Geng, Dow Jones reported. Taiwan's civil aviation regulator said scheduled cross-strait flights will start August 31. At present, only chartered flights between Taiwan and China are allowed. After the change, the number of flights, both scheduled and chartered, will increase to 270 a week from 108. China Southern currently operates 10 cross-strait charter flights a week. It will raise that number to 27 scheduled flights a week from August 31, said Henry He, manager of China Southern's Taiwan Branch. Traffic rose more than 10 percent in the first half, Tan said, "but the highest growth was on the China-Taiwan routes."
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