An agreement allowing mainland-based Taiwanese businessmen to take direct flights home for the Lunar New Year holiday has yet to be reached, according to members of a Kuomintang delegation who arrived in Beijing yesterday to negotiate a deal.
'We have been hearing different things in Taiwan about the Lunar New Year holiday charter flights being finalised. But what we have learned is that further talks are necessary,' John Chang Hsiao-yen, a KMT legislator and member of the delegation, said.
The delegates, led by Tseng Yung-chuan, director of the party's policy co-ordination department, were welcomed by He Shizhong, head of the Taiwan Affairs Office's economic affairs bureau.
They are scheduled to meet the director of the Taiwan Affairs Office, Chen Yunlin , this afternoon before returning to Taipei tonight.
Mr Chang's comments came after Taiwanese media reported on Saturday that Taipei Airlines Association chairman Michael Lo Ta-hsin had reached an agreement on the flights with Pu Zhaozhou , director of the Department of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau Affairs under the General Administration for Civil Aviation of China.
