China Airlines : Taiwan firm eyes wider market for its protective air travel gear

TAIPEI (Reuters) – As Asians travellers tentatively return to the skies amid the coronavirus pandemic, some are choosing to wear special suits covering much of their body to protect them against the virus. One Taiwanese company manufacturing such outfits, BenQ Materials Corp, displayed its version on board a “flight to nowhere” along the island’s east coast on Thursday, and its chairman wants to promote them beyond the Asian market. “We’re using this to promote these goods to the whole world, not just Taiwan,” company Chairman Z.C. Chen told Reuters at Taipei’s Songshan airport, where the two-hour flight operated by China…