By Kao Shih-ching / Staff reporterThe nation’s airlines continued to cancel more flights from Taiwan to Chinese destinations this month due to an outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Last week, the airlines announced that they were canceling 232 flights for the first half of this month, according to the information on their Web sites. State-owned China Airlines Ltd (CAL, 中華航空) said that it would halt 40 flights to China until Monday next week, with the affected destinations including Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Xuzhou. From Tuesday next week through Feb. 22, CAL and its subsidiary Mandarin Airlines (華信航空) would cancel about 120 round-trip flights from Taiwan to more than 10 Chinese cities, the airline said. Tigerair Taiwan Ltd (台灣虎航), another subsidiary of CAL, said that it is canceling 52 round-trip flights to Macau from today through Feb. 26.
