Flights between Taipei Songshan Airport and Shanghai's Hongqiao International Airport will likely start late this year, Dow Jones reported.

Flights between Taiwan and Shanghai currently take off and land at Shanghai Pudong International Airport, and Taiwan has been asking China since last year to add flights to and from Hongqiao.

The two sides operate 270 cross-strait passenger flights a week, but China has capped flights to Shanghai at 56 a week because of the congested air space around the city.