Taiwan's Mandarin Airlines to provide charter flights to Okinawa, Cebu

TAIPEI (AFP) - Taiwan's Mandarin Airlines said Monday it will launch charter flights to Okinawa in Japan and Cebu in the Philippines between September and October.

Mandarin Airlines, a wholly-owned unit of Taipei-based China Airlines, will provide Kaohsiung-Okinawa charter flights every four days between September 14 and October 29 and two
Kaohsiung-Cebu flights a week between September 16 and 25, a company spokesman said.

Kaohsiung is the second largest city after Taipei in Taiwan.

"The charter flights are to meet rising demand of the tourism industry," the spokesman said.

Mandarin Airlines currently serves 14 destinations in four countries in the region including Vietnam and Hong Kong.