Taichung seeks budget hub status

BTN News
Saturday, 11 March 2017

The Taichung City government says it intends to make the Taichung Airport in central Taiwan the country's second budget airline hub after Taiwan Taoyuan International.

The city government's Tourism Office said the special municipality is determined to transform the airport into a budget airline centre in a bid to push tourism development in central Taiwan.

Currently, three foreign budget airlines operate out of the Taichung Airport: Hong Kong Express Airways flies between Taichung and Hong Kong, South Korea's T'Way Air flies between Taichung and Daegu and Vietnam's VietJet flies between Taichung and Ho Chi Minh City.

Since 2015, the city government has made efforts to launch new air services from the Taichung Airport to 12 international destinations -- South Korea's Incheon, Japan's Nagoya, Osaka, Oita and Nagasaki and China's Chengdu, Shenyang, Changzhou, Wuhan, Jieyang and Wuxi.

Currently, the airport provides services to 37 international destinations, including 26 in China.

Taichung seeks budget hub status

BTN News
Saturday, 11 March 2017

The Taichung City government says it intends to make the Taichung Airport in central Taiwan the country's second budget airline hub after Taiwan Taoyuan International.

The city government's Tourism Office said the special municipality is determined to transform the airport into a budget airline centre in a bid to push tourism development in central Taiwan.

Currently, three foreign budget airlines operate out of the Taichung Airport: Hong Kong Express Airways flies between Taichung and Hong Kong, South Korea's T'Way Air flies between Taichung and Daegu and Vietnam's VietJet flies between Taichung and Ho Chi Minh City.

Since 2015, the city government has made efforts to launch new air services from the Taichung Airport to 12 international destinations -- South Korea's Incheon, Japan's Nagoya, Osaka, Oita and Nagasaki and China's Chengdu, Shenyang, Changzhou, Wuhan, Jieyang and Wuxi.

Currently, the airport provides services to 37 international destinations, including 26 in China.