Mandarin Airlines seeks to end its Hualien servicesBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporterMandarin Airlines yesterday said it hoped to receive approval to stop operating its Kaohsiung-Hualien and Taichung-Hualien routes because of persistently low demand and rising losses. Mandarin Airlines chairman Chen Ta-chun (陳大鈞) said the average passenger load for its Taichung-Hualien flights is about 30 percent and 20 percent for Kaohsiung-Hualien flights. Without the flights, people can still use railway and highway services to Hualien,” Chen said. The CAA in 1999 set formulas for calculating the upper and lower cap of domestic flight ticket prices by factoring in 14 cost items submitted by airlines. In 2014, it allowed carriers to adjust ticket prices whenever fuel prices change.

Source: Taipei Times April 08, 2026 17:13 UTC