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Mandarin Airlines has taken delivery of its first ATR 72-600 equipped with PW127XT engines, starting a new era for Taiwanese regional air travel.

More than 70,000 people who bought tickets for domestic flights have been told that they must pay the difference in price when a new ticketing scheme takes effect on Thursday, the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) said yesterday. On June 1, the agency had said that ticket prices for domestic flights would increase by an average of 4.8 percent, or about NT$100, due to rising fuel costs. Of the 23 domestic flight routes, the price of a Mandarin Airlines’ flight between Taipei and Kinmen would rise the most, with the cost of a one-way ticket increasing from NT$2,409 to NT$2,641. The lowest...

By Shelley Shan / Staff reporterMore than 70,000 people who bought tickets for domestic flights have been told that they must pay the difference in price when a new ticketing scheme takes effect on Thursday, the Civil Aeronautics Administration （CAA） said yesterday.

<strong>Oct. 04 to Oct.10</strong> The first China Airlines plane without an Republic of China (ROC) flag on its tail took flight from Taiwan on Oct 7, 1995. In place of the red, white and blue banner were today’s pink, ink brush-style plum blossoms; the change was reportedly made so that the airline could keep flying to Hong Kong after the 1997 handover to China. There was no problem with the carrier’s name and flag when it was founded in 1959, but things changed in the early 1990s when Beijing had become powerful enough to exert international pressure against Taiwan’s plan...

<strong>Oct. 04 to Oct.10</strong> The first China Airlines plane without an Republic of China (ROC) flag on its tail took flight from Taiwan on Oct 7, 1995. In place of the red, white and blue banner were today’s pink, ink brush-style plum blossoms; the change was reportedly made so that the airline could keep flying to Hong Kong after the 1997 handover to China. There was no problem with the carrier’s name and flag when it was founded in 1959, but things changed in the early 1990s when Beijing had become powerful enough to exert international pressure against Taiwan’s plan...