The only people allowed to fly in or out of Kinmen were senior military officials and persons in need of emergency medical treatment. A Kinmen native living in Taipei had to first spend two entire working days completing the paperwork, then take a day traveling by train to the southern port of Kaohsiung. From there the traveler boarded a military landing craft for a choppy trip back home lasting more than ten hours.
加上交通不便，飛機只提供軍方要職及急需就醫的傷患，居住台北的金門人想回家得先花兩個工作天辦證件，再搭一整天的火車至高雄，從高雄港坐乘登陸艇飄洋顛躓十數小時才回得到家。