TransAsia Airways
Defunct airline of Taiwan (1951–2016) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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TransAsia Airways (TNA, until January 1992 known by its Chinese-translated name Foshing Airlines;[1][2] traditional Chinese: 復興航空; simplified Chinese: 复兴航空; pinyin: Fùxīng Hángkōng) was a Taiwanese airline based in Neihu District in Taipei. Though the company started its operations focusing mainly on the Taiwanese domestic market, it operated on many scheduled international routes and focused mainly on Southeast and Northeast Asia and cross-strait flights at the time of closure.
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Founded | 21 May 1951 (1951-05-21) (as Foshing Airlines) | ||||||
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Commenced operations | 1 January 1992 (1992-01-01) (as TransAsia Airways) | ||||||
Ceased operations | 22 November 2016 (2016-11-22) | ||||||
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Frequent-flyer program | Legend Flight Club | ||||||
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Parent company | Goldsun Construction & Development | ||||||
Headquarters | Neihu, Taipei, Taiwan | ||||||
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TransAsia suspended operations and shut down indefinitely on 22 November 2016 after a pair of hull loss incidents that occurred within months.[3] Its low-cost subsidiary V Air had already ceased operations in October 2016.[4]