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Far Eastern Air Transport : FE : FEA :
par Jeannot Lun 25 Avr 2011, 23:22
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Far Eastern Air Transport (遠東航空) (FAT) is an airline based in Taipei, Taiwan. Established in 1957, it operated domestic services from Taipei and Kaohsiung to five regional cities and international services to Southeast Asia, South Korea and Palau. Its main base was Taipei Songshan Airport. After a chain of financial crises broke out in early 2008, the airline publicly announced its bankruptcy and stopped all flights on and beyond 13 May 2008. The airline restarted its services on April 18, 2011.
History
The airline was established in 1957 and started operations in November 1957. It originally focused on charter flights until the introduction of scheduled services in January 1965. For the next 30 years this carrier was the No. 1 brand in Taiwanese domestic routes and was granted the right to fly regular international flights in 1996, from Kaohsiung International Airport to Palau and Subic Bay. It started cargo operations in the Asian region in 2004. The airline had 1,220 employees (at March 2007). Beginning in 2004, FAT invested in the Cambodian airline, Angkor Airways. Angkor Airways subsequently shut down flight operations on May 9, 2009. The chairman, Alex Lou(樓文豪) was put into custody by Cambodian police on May 9, 2009 for his alleged breach of trust.
Due to the ever-rising fuel prices and Taiwan High Speed Rail's inauguration, the airline suffered financial losses since early 2007 and the situation was seriously worsened by poor financial management and risky investments. On 13 February 2008 FAT failed to pay the USD 848,000 it owed to the International Clearing House, a financial subsidiary of IATA, and IATA cancelled the airline's membership as a result. Although a local court granted FAT's restructuring application on 23 February 2008, in the next three months it still failed to obtain the necessary funds and the company's bankruptcy protection expired on 22 May. FAT had stopped paying employee salaries but the staff were still on duty as of May 2008 because they wanted to try and save the company but some were saying they could not hold on much longer.
On November 27, 2010, an MD-83 (aircraft registration number: B-28025) of FAT began flight test at Taipei Songshan Airport at 10am. The plane successfully landed and returned to the airport at 12:20pm. The aviation authority in Taiwan granted a test flight license to FAT but required an additional test flight and $50 million New Taiwan Dollar as deposit before the re-granting an airline operating license. The airline restarted its services on April 18, 2011.
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Re: Far Eastern Air Transport : FE : FEA :
par Jeannot Dim 10 Juil 2011, 16:21
FAT attend de 3 à 5 Airbus
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ON ONE CONDITION:The CAA has told the airline that it must increase its fleet by October if it is to be allowed to operate flights across the Strait
Far Eastern Air Transport Corp (FAT, 遠東航空) expects to receive three to five Airbus airplanes in September as part of the carrier’s efforts to start flights across the Taiwan Strait, the Taiwanese airline said on Saturday.
The exact number of planes FAT will rent from Airbus will depend on how the local carrier does in repairing two grounded Boeing 757s, the carrier said.
FAT, which resumed services in mid-April after a three year hiatus because of financial problems, currently operates a fleet of three MD-80 aircraft and provides four weekly flights between Taipei and the outlying island of Kinmen. The carrier said its fleet will expand with another MD-80 coming into service shortly after the completion of repair work on the plane.
After its service resumption, the carrier was assigned by the aviation authorities a total of 24 flights a week to the Chinese cities of Taiyuan in Shanxi Province, Sanya and Haikuo in Hainan Province, and Chengdu in Sichuan Province.
FAT failed to secure the most popular Chinese destinations, such as Beijing and Shanghai.
The Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) gave FAT a condition that the airline must meet in order to operate cross-strait flights: The carrier must increase its fleet to nine planes by Oct. 20, otherwise the number of flights will be cut according to the size of the fleet.
FAT said it is determined to meet the CAA’s demand either by accelerating efforts to repair existing planes or by renting new aircraft. The carrier also plans to provide services to Penghu and Siem Reap, Cambodia, starting this month.
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