The China Post
By: Sun Hsin Hsuan, The China Post and CNA
December 2, 2016, 12:03 am TWN
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Former Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) chief Chang Kuo-cheng (張國政)
A TransAsia Airways (復興航空) aircraft sits idle as a Mandarin Airlines (華信航空) aircraft takes off from Taipei Songshan Airport on Thursday, Dec. 1. Mandarin Airlines’ first flight between Taipei and Hualien took off Thursday after the airline temporarily took over the aviation route from the dissolved TransAsia Airways (CNA)
and TransAsia Chairman Vincent Lin (林明昇) were subpoenaed Thursday as part of a probe into a takeover offer for TransAsia Airways (復興航空).
Chang and Lin were called as witnesses by the Taipei District Prosecutors Office (台北地檢署).
Chang said yesterday that it wasn’t he who had wanted to announce an offer on Tuesday to take over the troubled airline.
Instead, it was Lin who suggested that it would be best to follow the proper procedures and make everything public, Chang said.
The offer — which Chang made Tuesday on behalf of backers he would not identify — was aborted the next day and decried by the government for being “premature” and showing “a lack of discretion.” [FULL STORY]
