With an inadequate passenger base, airlines could not sustain the losses. In view of this, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications authorized the termination of Uni Air's Taipei-Kaohsiung service, Mandarin Airlines 'Taichung-Taitung service and FAT's Taipei-Tainan and Kaohsiung-Hualien services to stop the hemorrhaging.
客源不足，各航空公司不堪虧損，交通部亦體諒業者，已陸續核准立榮的北高線、華信的台中 — 台東線，及遠航的北南線、高花線停航以終止失血。