Far Eastern Air Transport (Taipei Sung Shan) will replace its current all-McDonnell Douglas (Long Beach) fleet of five MD-82s and three MD-83s with twenty new B737-800s the airline's Chief Operating Officer Tseng Chin-chih has disclosed.
Speaking to Taiwan's Central News Agency, Tseng said the B737s would arrive at a rate of four aircraft per annum over the next five years with the first due to be delivered in May 2016 as a lease from Air Lease Corporation (ALC). Once in place, the ageing McDonnell Douglas aircraft will then be withdrawn from revenue service - in approximately 2020.
Founded in 1957, FEAT serves thirteen destinations throughout Taiwan and China. It recently completed a court-ordered restructuring programme as part of a 2011 bankruptcy-protection deal to resume operations.
