CAL Would Get Mired in 3 Major Predicaments in Operations If It Should Change Corporate Name

 CAL Would Get Mired in 3 Major Predicaments in Operations If It Should Change Corporate Name

Source: UDN

April 15, 2020

The issue of renaming the corporate name of China Airlines (CAL) keeps bubbling up. Yesterday, Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍), Minister of Transportation and Communications, expressed support for a name change from China Airlines to “Taiwan Airlines” in order to avoid misunderstandings, i.e., people might mistake it for being Mainland-based.  

However, figures in the aviation circles pointed out that the name change would leave CAL mired in the following three major predicaments in operations:

1)      How could CAL re-negotiate and re-conclude, in its new name, all agreements on freedoms of the air with other countries without raising objections?

2)      Would the existing rights of overflight automatically continue?

3)      An airline operator usually has a large fleet of aircraft. Changes in CAL’s huge number of international loan contracts would be difficult, if not impossible. What would CAL do if the latter should be the case? 

The same sources went on to say that if the corporate name was changed without clear considerations, in the worst case scenario, CAL might face closure, adding that at that time, the victims would be our own countrymen who wanted to travel abroad.

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