Far Eastern Air Transport
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| Founded | 5 June 1957 | ||||||
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| Hubs | Taipei Songshan Airport | ||||||
| Fleet size | 8 | ||||||
| Destinations | 19 (scheduled) | ||||||
| Headquarters | Taipei, Taiwan | ||||||
| Key people | 張綱維 (pinyin: Zhāng Gāngwéi; Chairperson and Majority Owner) | ||||||
| Website | http://www.fat.com.tw/ | ||||||
FAT Taiwan Inc. (traditional Chinese: 遠東航空股份有限公司; simplified Chinese: 远东航空股份有限公司; pinyin: Yuǎndōng Hángkōng Gǔfènyǒuxiàngōngsī), doing business as Far Eastern Air Transport (FAT, traditional Chinese: 遠東航空; simplified Chinese: 远东航空; pinyin: Yuǎndōng Hángkōng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Oán-tong Háng-khong), is an airline with its head office in Songshan District, Taipei, Taiwan (Republic of China).
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 succession of financial crises in early 2008, the airline publicly announced its bankruptcy and stopped all flights with effect from 13 May 2008. The airline recommenced operations on 18 April 2011. The airline emerged from bankruptcy restructuring on 16 October 2015.
The airline was established in 1957 and started operations in November the same year. It originally focused on charter flights until the introduction of scheduled services in January 1965. For the next 30 years the airline was the No. 1 carrier on 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. Beginning in 2004, FAT invested in the Cambodian airline, Angkor Airways. Angkor Airways subsequently shut down flight operations on 9 May 2009.
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