Taipei Times
Date: Dec 13, 2019
By: Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
The Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) yesterday said that it has asked two domestic carriers to
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Far Eastern Air Transport vice presidents Huang Yu-chi, center, and Lu Chi-rong, right, bow as Civil Aeronautics Administration deputy director Fang Chih-wen looks on at a news conference in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: CNA
There are 500 passengers stranded overseas, the CAA added.
FAT yesterday morning said that its Web site was temporarily shut down for maintenance, which was what happened on Nov. 23, 2016, the day TransAsia Airways terminated its operations.
“Due to financial losses and difficulties in securing funds for operations, we would stop all aviation services starting Dec. 13,” FAT wrote in a statement yesterday. [FULL STORY]