China Airlines

But otherwise, credit card.

I flew China Airlines.

Let's talk about my airlines.

First flying from LA to Shanghai was on China Eastern Airlines.

How are they? Fine, I guess.

But China Airlines, which I flew the rest of the way, which had the daily flights to Palau from Taipei, China Airlines is one of the national carriers in Taiwan.

And it's very confusing because most people think of Taiwanese airlines, you think EVA Air, which I've flown before, EVA.

They're great.

You saw that with the...

I forget whether that was a China Air flight 747 that departed controlled flight over the Pacific years ago, where parts of the elevator were missing.

And so you do see that kind of thing when that occurs.

In fact, we just also saw it with the fly-to-buy flight.

And notice that the rest of the surface was not missing.

So the factors that would result in a broader failure normally would have to do with if you have a pilot pulling back really hard, trying to recover from a dive, for example, you know, that could, that could cause that kind of damage or there could be some other factor.

Uh, but you know, one of the things that, you know, when I just looking at the fly to buy flight that, uh, When you look at that kind of event, if you take an airplane and put it into a vertical dive and the airplane is nominally and otherwise not touched and something happens that puts it into a vertical dive, such as happened with China Air a few years ago.

We'll just talk about that one where it goes into a straight down dive.

Korean Air and Asiana famously operated their Kennedy flights with a stop in Anchorage going to Seoul.

And China Airlines operated from JFK also, JFK to Anchorage to Taipei, which really

makes sense because they were there with their cargo aircraft

anyway.

So you had an infrastructure there, right? You already had China Airlines, Korean Air, Asiana, mechanics and ops people.

It wasn't a big stretch for them to have a passenger, you know, one of their flights be a passenger flight.

Drew, I was a

According to Bloomberg, several Taiwanese flights have been rerouted over the weekend.

The outlet said China Airlines and EVA Air had not flown over Pakistan since October 25.

However, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday night that Pakistan overflight rights for Taiwanese carriers were restored.

It said the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority allowed Taiwan's China Airlines and EVA Air to use Pakistani airspace from October 28 to March 27.

And that is it for This Week in Taiwan.

My name is Eloise Phillips.

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Or how about this one, $10 trillion because China Airlines won't acknowledge that Xi Jinping is a reader's legitimate uncle by blood.

The reason? Her family, many of whom are Boeing employees, defamed her, claiming she doesn't have a familial connection.

And finally, there's

Because the nation's economic value is rooted in technology, the country doesn't need domestic airlines to project its prestige or drive foreign investment.

As a result, EVA Air and Starlux receive no public subsidies as for-profit entities and compete head-to-head alongside the state-owned China Airlines.

In Qatar, there is no boundary between airline and airport.

Both are state-owned assets controlled by the same leaders.

Okay, another Southwest story.

Southwest also announced you'd be able to use Rapid Rewards points to book international partners like Iceland Air, China Airlines, and Etihad going forward.

Swipe right or swipe left on the ability to use your Southwest Rapid Rewards on some foreign partners.

Let's swipe left because we just don't know.

The devil is going to be in the details on this and whether Southwest is going to offer truly great redemptions or really awful redemptions to fly China Airlines to Taiwan or Etihad to Abu Dhabi is a huge question mark.

Yeah, we got to see what are the taxes and fees going to be like? Are these going to be dynamically priced? I mean, if they're dynamically priced and we get some of those $300 Iceland airfares to Iceland, I mean, then all of a sudden you're looking at some really cheap redemptions.

But what are the taxes and fees like? Lots of questions still to answer there.

Southwest did its big investor day and media day, what, two weeks ago now, and didn't confirm whether this was in the cards.