Far Eastern Air Transport

Far Eastern Air Transport
IATA ICAO Call sign
FE FEA FAR EASTERN
Founded
  • Part 1: 5 June 1957 (1957-06-05)
  • Part 2: 18 April 2011 (2011-04-18)
Ceased operations
  • Part 1: 13 May 2008 (2008-05-13)
  • Part 2: 13 December 2019 (2019-12-13)
HubsTaipei Songshan Airport
Fleet size12
Destinations19 (scheduled)
HeadquartersTaipei, Taiwan
Key peopleChang Kang-wei (Chairman & Majority Owner)
Far Eastern Air Transport
Traditional Chinese遠東航空
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinYuǎndōng hángkōng

FAT Taiwan Inc., (Chinese: 遠東航空) doing business as Far Eastern Air Transport (FAT), was an airline with its head office in Songshan District, Taipei, Taiwan (Republic of China).[1]

FAT headquarters

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.[2] After a succession of financial crises in early 2008, the airline publicly announced its bankruptcy and stopped all flights with effect from 13 May 2008.[3] The airline recommenced operations on 18 April 2011. The airline emerged from bankruptcy restructuring on 16 October 2015. The airline continued to face financial problems, and operations were halted from 13 December 2019.

  1. ^ Home page Archived 2008-12-18 at the Wayback Machine. Far Eastern Air Transport. Retrieved on January 6, 2011. "地址:台北市敦化北路405巷123弄5號 " - Map()
  2. ^ "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-04-03. p. 81.
  3. ^ "FAT temporarily halts operations". Taipei Times. 13 May 2008. Retrieved 12 December 2019.