// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did daily air say to daily air? You're always blowing me away.
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| Founded | 1993 | ||||||
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| Hubs | Kaohsiung International Airport | ||||||
| Focus cities | Taitung Airport | ||||||
| Fleet size | 6 | ||||||
| Headquarters | 2F, 340-9 Tun-hua North Road, Songshan, Taipei City, Taiwan | ||||||
| Website | www | ||||||
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| Chinese | 德安航空 | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 達信航空 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 达信航空 | ||||||
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Daily Air Corporation (Chinese: 德安航空; pinyin: Déān Hángkōng) is a Taiwanese regional airline with its headquarters in Songshan District, Taipei, Taiwan.[1] It operates scheduled passenger services, primarily to domestic destinations such as offshore islands from Taiwan, including Penghu, Green Island and Orchid Island, as well as helicopter contract services and charters. Its main base is Taipei Songshan Airport, with hubs at Kaohsiung International Airport and Taitung Airport.[2]
History
[edit]The airline was established in 1992 as a helicopter operator. Aircraft services began on 8 June 2005. The airline is owned by Sincere and Durban Shopping Mall, Miramar Entertainment Park, DC Development (Construction) Group, Mayer Steel Pipe, Tze Shin Transportation and Terminal and Far Eastern Air Transport (5%). It had 100 employees, as of March 2007.[2]
Destinations
[edit]| Hub | |
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| Terminated destinations |
| Destination | Code | Airport | Notes | Refs |
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| Kaohsiung | KHH | RCKH | Kaohsiung International Airport | |
| Green Island | GNI | RCGI | Lüdao Airport | |
| Magong | MZG | RCQC | Penghu Airport | |
| Orchid Island | KYD | RCLY | Lanyu Airport | |
| Cimei | CMJ | RCCM | Qimei Airport | |
| Taitung | TTT | RCFN | Taitung Airport | |
| Wangan | WOT | RCWA | Wang-an Airport |
Fleet
[edit]_Taipei_-_Sung_Shan_(TSA_RCSS)_September_13,_2016_(cropped).jpg)
As of November 2016, the Daily Air fleet consists of the following aircraft:[3][needs update]
| Aircraft | In service | Orders | Passengers | Notes |
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| de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter | 4 | — | 19 | (as of August 2025)[4] |
| MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 | 2 | — | 8 | |
| Total | 6 | — |
Incidents and accidents
[edit]- On 13 April 2017, Flight 55571, a DHC-6, overran the runway and crashed into a guard rail in Lanyu Airport in Taitung County. None of the people on board were hurt.[5]
- On 7 June 2017, a Daily Air-operated DHC-6-400 experienced malfunction in its front landing gear. No person on board was hurt.[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 德安航空股份有限公司一般租機合約書. Daily Air. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved January 5, 2012.
地址：台北市敦化北路340號之10
- 1 2 "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-04-03. p. 71.
- ↑ "Global Airline Guide 2016 (Part Two)". Airliner World (November 2016): 33.
- ↑ "Global Airline Guide 2025 - Daily Air". Airliner World. September 2025. p. 76.
- ↑ Shan, Shelley (14 April 2017). "Daily Air flight overruns runway on Orchid Island". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
- ↑ Lu, Tyson; Kao, Evelyn (7 June 2017). "Daily Air plane grounded in Lanyu due to nose landing gear problem". Focus Taiwan. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
External links
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Media related to Daily Air at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website Archived 2019-08-30 at the Wayback Machine (Chinese)
- English (archive)
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