Far Eastern Air Transport (Taipei Sung Shan) has been fined NTD3 million dollars (USD101,000) by the Taiwanese Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) for excessive non-weather- and non-ATC-related flight cancellations in the third quarter of 2017, the Taipei Times has reported.
The carrier cancelled a total of 149 flights over the course of these three months and exceeded the law-prescribed threshold of 3% of cancellations across the whole network. In September 2017 alone, the carrier's rate of cancellations exceeded 12% of all flights.
FEAT's reliability has improved in the fourth quarter of 2017 following the delivery of its maiden two ATR - Avions de Transport Régional 72-600s.
According to the ch-aviation capacity module, FEAT currently operates 238 weekly flights mostly on domestic routes in Taiwan, with nearly half of its scheduled capacity concentrated on services out of Penghu to each of Taipei Sung Shan and Kaohsiung.
