Aviation Tigerair Taiwan adds flights to Macau on ‘boost in tourism’

Tigerair Taiwan, a joint venture between Taiwan’s China Airlines (CAL) and Singapore’s Tiger Airways, said this week it will increase flights between Taiwan and Macau, as well as between Taiwan and Sendai and Daegu as peak travel season arrives in those places, the Central News Agency reported.
Two round-trip flights per week will be added to the Taoyuan-Macau route between Oct. 30 and Dec. 14, on Wednesday and Saturday.
Another two round-trip flights will be added on the same route every Monday and Thursday between Dec. 15 and March 25 next year, it said, bringing the total to 23 per week.
The budget airline already operates two to three daily flights to Macau, but according to CNA “a boost in tourism is expected in the fall because the Special Administrative Region will hold many major events or festivals at that time.”
The carrier said four round-trip flights will be added per week between Taoyuan and Sendai in Japan from Oct. 20 to 31 to take advantage of the fall foliage season, with two to be added every Thursday and two more on Mondays.
The airline currently offers four round-trip flights per week between the two destinations. Two round-trip flights will be between Taoyuan and Daegu in South Korea from Dec. 3 and Feb. 25, 2016 – one on Wednesday and one on Saturday – bringing the total to six per week.
Tigerair Taiwan said tourists could go there to enjoy changes in the color of tree leaves or to shop, the Taiwanese agency reported.
Recently, travel portal website Skyscanner reported that Macau is on the top 10 favored destinations for Taiwan people. The countries and regions that made the top 10 were Macau, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, the U.S. and the U.K.
Statistics for the month of June released by Taiwan’s Tourism Bureau showed that tourists from mainland China dominated as the largest source of visitors, accounting for almost 33.2 percent of the total number. Those from Hong Kong and Macau, calculated as the same group, accounted for about 17.5 percent of the total number of arrivals. MDT/Agencies