BEIJING, Feb. 5(Xinhuanet)-- Air China's CA1087, carrying 136 Taiwan businessmen and their families to Taipei Saturday, fulfilled the company's last charter flight before the Spring Festival, which falls on February 9.

The plane took off here at 10:00 a.m. and landed in Taipei at around 1:30 p.m. It is expected to return to Beijing at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

The flight offered its passengers festival gifts and delicate dishes with traditional dumplings specially prepared for the Chinese lunar new year, said officials with Air China.

On Jan. 29, CA1087 became the first charter plane in 56 years from the Chinese mainland carrying some 242 Taiwan business people and their families that landed in Taipei.

Air China has run three round-trip non-stop charter flights before the Spring Festival. It will carry another round-trip cross-Straits flight on Feb. 13.