Tigerair Taiwan to increase Taipei – Okayama service from 2024 winter schedule

Tigerair Taiwan A320neo
Tigerair Taiwan uses the A320neo on the Taipei – Okayama route.

On July 8, 2024, Okayama Prefecture announced that the Taiwanese low-cost Tigerair Taiwan will add two extra weekly flights on its Taipei Taoyuan – Okayama route starting from the 2024 winter schedule (i.e. from October 27, 2024), expanding the service to nine weekly.

Once the service is expanded, there will be two flights each Tuesday and Sunday in the direction from Taiwan and each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (and no flight on Thursday) in the other direction. According to the prefecture, the flights, which are not available for booking yet, will operate as follows:

  • Taipei Taoyuan – Okayama / 11:10AM – 2:35PM / Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun
  • Taipei Taoyuan – Okayama / 1:05PM – 4:30PM / Tue, Wed, Sun
  • Okayama – Taipei Taoyuan / 3:25PM – 5:30PM / Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat
  • Okayama – Taipei Taoyuan / 5:30PM – 7:35PM / Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun

Tigerair Taiwan, which is the only airline connecting the two cities, will use 180-seater Airbus A320neo aircraft on the route.

The number of travelers between Okayama and Taipei Taoyuan has rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, reaching 107,829 passengers at an 87.6% load factor in fiscal 2023 (April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024).

In fiscal 2018, 104,249 passengers traveled between the two cities (80.7% load factor). That has decreased to 98,118 passengers (78.5% load factor) in fiscal 2019 lasting from April 1, 2019, until March 31, 2020. In fiscal 2020 and fiscal 2021, the route was suspended, and in fiscal 2022, only 695 passengers flew on the route (64.4% load factor).

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