Daily Air

Daily Air
Daily Air
Chinese	德安航空
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Dé'ān Hángkōng
Former name
Traditional Chinese	達信航空
Simplified Chinese	达信航空
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Dáxìn Hángkōng

Daily Air
德安航空
Founded	1993
Hubs	Kaohsiung International Airport
Focus cities	Taitung Airport
Fleet size	6
Headquarters	Songshan, Taipei, Taiwan
Website	[1]

Daily Air Corporation (Chinese: 德安航空; pinyin: Déān Hángkōng) is an airline with its headquarters in Songshan District, Taipei, Taiwan.^[1] It operates scheduled passenger services to 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[]

The airline was established in 1992 as a helicopter operator. Aircraft services began 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 has 100 employees, as of March 2007.^[2] Daily Air operates flights primarily to domestic destinations in Taiwan.

Destinations[]

	Hub
	Focus City
	Future destinations
	Terminated destinations

City	IATA	ICAO	Airport
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[]

Dornier 228 from Daily Air in Kaohsiung in October 2006

The Daily Air fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of December 2019):^[3]

**Daily Air Fleet**
Aircraft	In Fleet	Orders	Passengers	Notes
Viking DHC-6-400 Twin Otter	4	—	19
MBB/Kawasaki BK 117	2	—	8	For Charter flight
Total	6

Incidents and accidents[]

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 onboard were hurt.^[4]
On 7 June 2017, a Daily Air-operated DHC-6-400 experienced malfunction in its front landing gear. No person onboard was hurt.^[5]

References[]

^ 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
^ ^a ^b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-04-03. p. 71.
^ "Global Airline Guide 2016 (Part Two)". Airliner World (November 2016): 33.
^ 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.