PROC visa on a ROC passport? No way. If this happened, this would be huge news in Taiwan + whichever officer did it would certainly be fired and severely punished.

There used to be certain ROC passports (those without a National ID number) that cannot be used to enter Taiwan freely. I believe this is passé and now every holder of ROC passport (with or without National ID number) can enter Taiwan.

PROC might issue a separate "travel document" if the person has ROC passport, really cannot enter Taiwan, and doesn't have Taibaozheng. The travel document would be a separate booklet and would not be on ROC passport. The travel document may be stamped.

If a person has Taibaozheng, that's all it needs to enter Mainland China.

BR cutting 1 of 3 daily flights to Manila through the end of March.

The evening turn BR277/278 is now cancelled.

CEB remains daily.

Starlux just announced they are pushing back their CEB launch to July.

HKG further reduced to 2 daily from 3.

That is the whole point. Mainland China does not recognize ROC passport and people need to use the Taiwan Resident Card (Tai-Bao-Zheng) Mainland issues to enter Mainland China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainla...iwan_Residents

BR is further reducing their overall Asia network. Cuts newly published are:
TPE-PNH
TPE-HAN (Afternoon Flight)
TPE-SIN (BR215/BR216)
TPE-ICN (late night + early morning turn removed)
TPE-OKA

Frequencies vary throughout the weeks. I can't imagine BR can go on for much longer without having to start introducing unpaid leave and pay reductions.

I think the union is already negotiating with the company to see whether FAs can take leave on a month by month basis--I think it was 6 months minimum in the past. Like before, I think the sticking point has to do with what happens 1) schedule requests and 2) whether they can use ID/ZED tickets for FAs who choose to take the unpaid leave.

Newest Cancellations as of Feb14:
TPE-NRT
TPE-KIX
TPE-CGK
TSA-SHA
TPE-CTU suspended (previously restarted at normal 2x weekly frequency)
TPE-LAX (BR5/6)
TPE-SFO (BR7/8)
TPE-HKG further reduced to 2 daily (1 daily on some days). Flights operated by 78X and A321.

Cancellations vary per day.

For SARS, it was 6 months unpaid leave with travel benefits (but who in the world wanted to use them at the time) and everyone who did work had to take a massive pay cut. Crew were granted priority schedule requests if they took the offer for 6 months. I was working for BR in the US during that time and they made everyone here take a 15% cut every month (ultimately, it was restored and paid back after they had a profitable year) and they laid some people off in LA. At the time, BR made everyone at TPE HQ take 10% off their pay (paid back with a bonus) and had a hiring freeze for the longest time.

At the end of 2003, BR still gave everyone a one-month end-of-year bonus, despite their financials being all red.

Travel ban in the Philippines was lifted today: https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/...an-lifted.html

Too late for us - we have already rebooked flights through Tokyo and most likely going to keep them as is.

Has anyone been able to get through the 1800 customer service number? Every time I call, I get some automated "all lines are busy, call back later" response. I even called the local ticketing office line and get rerouted to the generic message. Is there a number that leads to a representative? I've been trying for weeks now...

They’re experiencing almost 3x the call volume right now so I think it’ll be a struggle to get through. Try Taipei.

I waited around 50 minutes when I called the LA office (local number) on Wednesday. My friends also had some reservations issues in Taiwan and called the Taipei office and waited a really long time as well.

Where can I find the information? How long are the cancellations until?
I'm trying to book BR5 (LAX-TPE) in mid April, so if that's true for my departure, I should book BR11 or BR15, instead.

I am wondering about the same thing too. I can’t find anything like that on EVA’s website Chinese and English.

BR’s website is horrible to navigate. But you can check the cancellation here and click on “Flight delay / cancellation”

Looks like they are canceling flights on a rolling basis (like during the previous strike). So flights on April is still “good to go” atm

I wish they had one of these OAG type of listing (i.e. Eff/Disc dates) on the cancellations (or schedule for the cities). The website (which is in the Wiki) was not even showing the flights hayzel7773 mentioned when I checked a few hours ago.

Of course, the more fluid and uncertain things are, the more people are going to say "just forget about flying".