Mandarin Airlines Wallpapers

Mandarin Airlines Wallpapers

Mandarin Airlines: Mandarin Airlines ( pinyin: Huáxìn Hángkōng) is a regional and domestic airline based in Taipei in Taiwan and is a subsidiary of China Airlines. Its main base is Chiang Kai Shek International Airport (TPE) in Taipei. Mandarin Airlines was established on June 1, 1991 and was originally a joint venture of China Airlines (66%) and the Kuo's Development Corporation (33%). On 16 October 1991 Mandarin Airlines started operations with direct flights from Taipei to Sydney in Australia. The next step was the opening of a direct air route to Vancouver in Canada on 7 December 1991. Thus, Mandarin Airlines became ROC's first airline to fly direct to Australia and Canada. The China Trust Group pulled out their investment in Mandarin Airlines on 31 October 1992, turning the airline into a company virtually wholly owned by China Airlines (90.05%) by December 1992. On 8 August 1999 China Airlines formally merged its subsidiary, Mandarin Airlines, with Formosa Airlines under the Mandarin name. Mandarin took over Formosa's domestic operations and aircraft while Mandarin's fleet and most of its international flights were transferred to China Airlines. The airline now has 622 employees. In Early 2000, the airline took 5 Dornier 228 from Uni Air for outer-lying routes operation. But these planes are sold to Daily Air in 2005, a helicopter carrier in Taiwan which recently won the bid for flying these money-losing routes.