Mandarin Airlines held its sixth time of the seventh interim board meeting on 16 January 2009 and Mr. Min Tang, Chen was unanimously elected new President of Mandarin Airlines. The present Chairman and President Harris Wang will focus on the duty as Chairman of Mandarin Airlines. China Airlines' Chairman Philip Wei announced this news in the following ceremony after the meeting. Chairman Wei said, “It's my great pleasure to announce the new President of Mandarin Airlines and in accord with the breakthrough of cross strait direct flights, China Airlines will work closely with Mandarin Airlines to meet the best interest for both parties. Chairman Wang has done a great job as both Chairman and President of Mandarin Airlines, and now with the assistance of President Chen, I am confident that Mandarin Airlines will have a great breakthrough under the excellent leadership of Wang and Chen.” Chairman Harris Wang said happily, “I am personally very grateful to China Airlines' appointing Chen, such an experienced and outstanding expert in corporate management, as the President of Mandarin Airlines, and we have strong confidence in him to bring good changes to Mandarin Airlines in the year of ox. The new President Chen said with sincere tone, ”Thank you for your full support, I will bear in mind the ultimate interests of our corporate and work hand in hand with our colleagues in Mandarin Airlines. I have great confidence that with the team work of Mandarin Airlines, we can achieve our aim to turn into profitable with all our efforts.” President Chen, Min Tang, joining China Airlines in 1971, has some 38 years of experience in airlines business. He first worked as a sales rep in Kaohsiung branch office, and then became the District Manger of Okinawa, Fukuoka, Kaohsiung, Thailand and Director of North East Asia branch office as well as Chairman of Taiwan Airport Services Co. Ltd. He served as President of Taiwan District and Taipei branch office of China Airlines from November 2005 till now.

　　 In order to stimulate the use of consumer voucher, Mandarin Airlines sponsors five Taichung-Hangzhou round trip tickets each to Taichung City, Taichung County, Changhua County and Nantou County as the lucky draw prize. The lucky winner will receive a free ticket together with free accommodation for four nights offered by Grand Travel Inc., with a value of TWD50,000 toally. Chairman Harris Wang said, ”Taichung is the major home base for Mandarin Airlines. Besides domestic service of Taichung-Makung, Taichung-Kinmen, we also actively expand our international service outbound from Taichung such as twice daily service from Taichung to Hong Kong, daily service to Ho Chi Ming City and one flight to Hangzhou on every Sunday. And we will expand our service to other foreign destinations in the future.”Chairman Wang especially welcomes the people of Taichung using Mandarin Airlines' service to Hangzhou, while the blossoming spring is coming and then enjoying a cultural and romantic trip to the West Lake.

　　 In order to support Government's policy of issuing consumer voucher to revitalize the economy, Mandarin Airlines offers super value for money programs on domestic service that is “using TWD3,600 consumer voucher to buy one round trip domestic ticket or TWD1,000 consumer voucher with equivalence of TWD1,200.” Whenever you spent The worth of TWD 3,600 consumer voucher, then you can obtain one round trip ticket on any of Mandarin Airlines domestic service routes and you can even enjoy further favor of using TWD1,000 consumer voucher with equivalence of TWD1,200. This special offer is effective from 4 February to 31 March 2009. Besides consumer voucher of TWD 3,600 can be used as TWD 5,000 when buying Mandarin Airlines' tickets for international or cross strait service effective from 2 February to 30 September 2009.

　　 On December 20 th 2008, Mandarin A irlines started its new flight to Shanghai from Kaohsiung. The first flight on flight number AE7211 depart ed from Kaohsiung I nternational A irport at 7:30 am . Chairman Harris W. Y. Wang of Mandarin A irlines was in to Kaohsiung Airport to see the first flight off on this remarkable day .