Starlux Airlines is to open direct flights from Taipei and Taichung to Busan, South Korea, starting on June 1, with ticket sales to begin tomorrow, the airline said yesterday.
Starlux would be the first airline in Taiwan to offer direct flights from Taichung to Busan.
Of the 18.944 million outbound trips from Taiwan last year, South Korea was the third-most-visited country, following Japan and China, Tourism Administration data showed.
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The routes are the airline’s first to South Korea, adding to its growing network across Asia and North America, Starlux CEO Glenn Chai (翟健華) said.
The Taichung-to-Busan route would also accommodate customers in central Taiwan, who would no longer have to travel to Taipei or Taoyuan or take connecting flights to reach South Korea, he said.
The move is in line with the airline’s plans to expand travel routes from Taichung, he added.
Starlux flies to 31 cities via 37 routes, with North American destinations such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Ontario, California, and Seattle and Phoenix, Arizona.
The airline’s Asian destinations include Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong and Macau.
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