China Airlines to Launch Kaohsiung - Hong Kong - Jakarta Flights

China Airlines will launch flights between Kaohsiung and Jakarta via Hong Kong on 1 July 2018.

The daily service will be operated with Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

China Airlines already operates 28 weekly flights to Jakarta, Surabaya, and Bali, and also codeshares with fellow SkyTeam carrier Garuda Indonesia to provide connecting services to Yogyakarta, Semarang, Bandar Lampung, Pontianak, Medan, Balikpapan, Pekanbaru, Makassar and other Indonesian cities. A new Bali to Perth, Australia codeshare service was introduced in May 2018, to provide greater network coverage.

China Airlines has also been developing the southern Taiwan market for a long time. The airline operates a total of 113 services a week from Kaohsiung and Tainan to major cities in Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia and China. The 18 destinations include Hong Kong, Bangkok, Manila, Singapore, Jakarta, Osaka, Tokyo, Sapporo, Kumamoto, Okinawa, Seoul, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Xiamen, Beijing, Changsha and Chongqing.

At the moment, China Airlines flies to 15 Southeast Asia destinations. Service frequency was progressively increased for the Taipei-Bangkok, Kaohsiung-Bangkok, and Taipei-Penang routes this year in support of the New Southward Policy. The addition of the new Kaohsiung-Hong Kong-Jakarta service in July will bring the total number of flights to Southeast Asia to 167 services a week.

Promotional fares are being offered by China Airlines to celebrate the launching of the new route with Economy Class return air fares starting from TWD 9,500 before taxes and Business Class starting from TWD 21,000 before taxes.

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