FAT risks losing license if fails to improve: minister

WARNING: The airline should take full responsibility for what has happened to travelers and its employees, regardless of the consequences, Lin Chia-lung said

Taipei Times
Date: Dec 25, 2019
By: Shelley Shan  /  Staff reporter

The Ministry of Transportation and Communications could revoke Far Eastern Air Transport’s (FAT)

Minister of Transportation and Communications Lin Chia-lung talks to reporters in Taichung yesterday.
Photo: Chen Chien-chih, Taipei times

license if it does not improve its operations, Minister of Transportation and Communications Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) said yesterday.

Lin made the remark on the sidelines of a railway project inspection in Taichung when asked how the ministry would handle the situation after the carrier unexpectedly announced on Dec. 12 that it would cease operations.

While FAT chairman Chang Kang-wei (張綱維) on Dec. 13 told a news conference that the airline would try to resume operations with funding of NT$1 billion (US$33.1 million), the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) has not lifted a suspension on its flights, despite receiving an official explanation from the firm.

As of yesterday, the airline said that it had received requests to refund more than 170,000 unused tickets.    [FULL  STORY]

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