Peach Aviation (MM, Osaka Kansai) plans to partially resume operations to Taiwan from October 25, the low-cost carrier revealed in a statement on September 10. Taipei Taoyuan will be its first international destination since the coronavirus outbreak forced it to suspend its regional routes on March 20.
Following what will be a seven-month suspension, Peach will operate 3x weekly frequencies to Taipei each from three airports in Japan; Osaka Kansai, Tokyo Haneda, and Tokyo Narita. Tickets are already on sale, the airline said.
By the time the pandemic struck, Peach had accumulated ten routes to Taiwan out of a total of 17 international routes. The first of these, Osaka-Taipei, launched in October 2012.
It operated to Kaohsiung (from Okinawa Naha, Osaka, and Tokyo Narita) as well as to Taipei (from Fukuoka, Okinawa, Osaka, Sapporo Chitose, Sendai, Tokyo Haneda, and Tokyo Narita). It did not say if or when the rest of the routes would resume.
Peach has continued to operate domestic flights and currently operates 24 of them, with a fleet of thirty-six A320-200s, the ch-aviation capacities and ch-aviation fleets modules show. Thirty of these aircraft are currently active.
The resumption to Taipei will “contribute to communication between Japan and Taiwan and economic revitalisation by ensuring both infection control and mobility,” the statement proclaimed. Peach is targeting international students, business customers, and the visit friends and family (VFR) customer segment, it said.
