The Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) said Thursday it will seek during Dec. 27 negotiations to add an additional 120 flights on cross-Taiwan Strait routes to all Chinese destinations for the coming Lunar New Year holiday. However, as Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen remain the most popular cross-strait destinations, Taiwan's proposal to increase flights to these cities might not be fully realized, since the Chinese government has set quotas for all four destinations, said CAA Director-General Yin Chen-pong. During the one-month Lunar New Year holiday in 2010, Taiwanese carriers offered an additional 88 flights -- 32 to Shanghai, 20 to Beijing, 20 to Guangzhou and 16 to Shenzhen. Many of these extra flights had very inconvenient departure and arrival times, though, and the CAA said it will try to get better time slots for the coming Lunar New Year period between Jan. 20 and Feb. 17, 2011. Even if red-eye flights are inevitable, Taiwan-based carriers have agreed that fares for such flights will be slashed by at least 40 percent if customers buy their tickets online. 'At least half of the tickets will be available online, ' Yin said. 'The public are welcome to report to us should any of the carriers break this deal,' he added. 