According to statistics from the Fuzhou Frontier Inspection Station, direct flights between Fuzhou and Taiwan have transported 873 vehicles and 14.7959 million passengers in the past year and a half.

This direct flight has gone through three distinct phases: the weekly flights in 2008, the normalization flights in the second half of 2009, and the full increased flights in 2010. Taiwan's TransAsia Airways firstly opened the direct lines between Fuzhou and Taiwan in February, 2010. As a result, Kaohsiung, Hualien, Penghu and other airlines followed it successively. Currently, the fixed weekly flights between Fuzhou and Taiwan have reached 28 sorties, far more than there were in the beginning.

In addition, the intensive flights in this air routes provided great convenience to visitors in Taiwan and Fuzhou. Many visitors from Wenzhou and Zhejiang prefer this direct flight as their first choice when they travel to Taiwan.

By Dong Jirong and Wei Xiangyun