{"id":47736,"date":"2026-06-26T04:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/47736\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T04:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:48:11","slug":"tropical-storm-disrupts-flights-between-taiwan-okinawa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/47736\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical storm disrupts flights between Taiwan, Okinawa today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several flights between Taiwan and Okinawa would today be changed due to Tropical Storm Mekkhala approaching the Ryukyu Islands, airlines said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>EVA Air announced its BR112\/113 flights between Taoyuan and Naha, Okinawa today would be canceled.<\/p>\n<p>China Airlines said that it canceled flights CI120\/121 between Taoyuan and Naha and CI132\/133 between Kaohsiung and Naha today, while flights CI122 and CI123 between Taoyuan and Naha would be delayed and upgraded to larger aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/p03-260626-online1.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Huang Yi-ching, Taipei Times <\/p>\n<p>Starlux Airlines announced schedule adjustments for its Okinawa routes: Flight JX302 from Taichung to Naha would be postponed to 2:55pm, while flight JX303 from Naha to Taichung would be delayed until 6:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, flight JX870 from Taipei to Naha would be delayed to 2:20pm, and its return leg, JX871, would depart at 6:10pm, Starlux said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Tigerair Taiwan announced that flights IT230\/231 between Taoyuan and Naha, as well as IT288\/289 between Kaohsiung and Naha, would be postponed until tomorrow, with the latter\u2019s flight number changed to IT2288\/2289.<\/p>\n<p>Flights IT792 from Taichung to Naha and IT729 from Naha to Kaohsiung today were canceled, Tigerair said.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Storm Mekkhala was located at latitude 24.6 degrees north and longitude 125.8 degrees east as of 2pm yesterday, about 220km southwest of Okinawa, moving north-northeast at a speed of 17kph, the Central Weather Administration said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several flights between Taiwan and Okinawa would today be changed due to Tropical Storm Mekkhala approaching the Ryukyu&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[127,17910,8,162,270,32964,269],"class_list":["post-47736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-okinawa","tag-flight-disruption","tag-flights","tag-japan","tag-okinawa","tag-the-taipei-times","tag-tropical-storm-mekkhala","tag-269"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}