Formosa Airlines: Safe?

Bing-Hung Chen wrote:
Ron Bartlett ) wrote:
: I'll be traveling within Taiwan in November on the following
Formosa
: Airlines segments: Taipei City (Sungshan Airport) to Taichung
(Fokker 50)
: and Taichung to Kaohsiung (SAAB equipment).

: Has anyone had experience with Formosa Airlines? I seem to recall
: that Conde Nast mag. mentioned them as having one of the WORST
safety
: records.

: Also, my return flight to Taipei City is on EVA Airlines (767).
: Though I've not flown EVA I believe their reputation to be better
: than China Airlines. I do have experience with CAL & would NOT
: recommend them unless there is no alternative. Anyone have any
: comments about EVA? Does EVA partner with any American carriers

Ron,

EVA doesn't have any American partner. (Well, it is only 188
miles
from Kaohsiung (KHH) to Taipei (TPE or TSA)) EVA has another
Taiwanese
partner, with 757, to operate the route, KHH-TSA (or TPE).

Formosa Airlines operates mostly routes among islets with turbo
propellers, and has some crashes during the past 10 years. Her
reputation
is quite notorious, though there is no recent crash heard from
Formosa
Airlines.

If I were you, I would take express train from Taipei to Taichung

(about 2.5 hours) and from Taichung to Kaohsiung (about 3 hours).
Remember
not to take bus from Taipei to Tiachung - bus runs very frequent,
but
traffic jam on highway sometimes is too terrible.

Have a nice trip to Taiwan

Ahh Eva has an American Partners acutally 3 American Airlines,
Continental Airlines and America West