FLIGHT FIGHT:CAA official Han Chen-hua said TransAsia can launch Chiang Mai and Fukuoka services after union members said the airline might be breaching the rules
Taipei Times
Date: Sep 22, 2016
By: Ted Chen and Shelley Shan / Staff reporters
TransAsia Airways Corp (復興航空) yesterday denied allegations of unfair treatment made by
Taoyuan Flight Attendants Union members hold placards in front of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications building in Taipei yesterday, protesting the conditions of budget airline V Air’s integration into parent company TransAsia Airways. Photo: George Tsorng, Taipei Times
employees of V Air (威航), its fully owned budget airline, which is to stop operations for at least one year beginning next month.
TransAsia said that the budget airline had accumulated net losses of more than NT$1.1 billion (US$35 million) since it began operations in December 2014.
“The company was compelled to halt V Air’s operations due to mounting losses, which had continued to trend higher,” TransAsia said, adding that V Air employees would be given more than three months’ salary each as severance payments, which exceeds the minimum legal requirement of one month.
TransAsia’s remarks came after about 20 V Air employees and Taoyuan Flight Attendants Union members protested in front of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications building in Taipei earlier yesterday, accusing TransAsia of keeping only profitable flight routes and firing V Air employees when they are no longer needed. [FULL STORY]
