Daily Air

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]

Daily Air
德安航空
IATA ICAO Callsign
DA DAC DAILY
Founded1993
HubsKaohsiung International Airport
Focus citiesTaitung Airport
Fleet size6
HeadquartersSongshan, Taipei, Taiwan
Website
Daily Air
Chinese德安航空
Former name
Traditional Chinese達信航空
Simplified Chinese达信航空

History

The airline was established in 1992 and started operations as a Bell 412 helicopter operator. Scheduled services using fixed wing Dornier aircraft 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 has 100 employees, as of March 2007.[2] Daily Air operates flights primarily to domestic destinations in Taiwan.

Subsidy fraud investigation

In 2018 Daily Air administration figures, including owner of Durban Development and former chairman of Daily Air, Huang Chun-fa, and Lai Yue-xing, general manager of Miramar, were investigated regarding subsidy application fraud over a 10-year period dating back to 2005 involving “more than $500 million” in subsidies. According to a report in the China Times: “Daily Air was suspected of over-reporting expenses and declaring false losses when applying to the Civil Aviation Administration for subsidies. The Civil Aviation Administration sent an auditor to the airport maintenance facility to check the application, and did not find the items listed in the subsidy application.”

The over-reported costs allegedly included “maintenance costs, and special private expenses”. After questioning, Huang Chun-fa and Lai Yue-xing were released on bail of NT$3 million and NT$1 million respectively.[3]

Destinations
Hub
Focus City
Future destinations
Terminated destinations
City IATA ICAO Airport Refs
KaohsiungKHHRCKHKaohsiung International Airport
Green IslandGNIRCGILüdao Airport
MagongMZGRCQCPenghu Airport
Orchid IslandKYDRCLYLanyu Airport
CimeiCMJRCCMQimei Airport
TaitungTTTRCFNTaitung Airport
WanganWOTRCWAWang-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):[4]

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 of Lanyu Airport in Taitung County. All of the passengers and flight crews were safe.[5]
  • On 7 June 2017, a DHC-6-400 of Daily Air experienced malfunction nose landing gear. All of the passengers and flight crews were safe.[6]

See also

References
  1. 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
  2. "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-04-03. p. 71.
  3. Daily Air fraud case: Huang Chun-fa bail set at $3 million, Jul 24, 2018
  4. "Global Airline Guide 2016 (Part Two)". Airliner World (November 2016): 33.
  5. Shan, Shelley (14 April 2017). "Daily Air flight overruns runway on Orchid Island". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  6. 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.


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