UNI Airways MD-90 has flown its last flight after 20 years of service
Eva Air and UNI Air of Taiwan say a final goodbye to the McDonnell Douglas MD-90 after 20 years of faithful service. The first aircraft B-16901 was delivered on 30th October 1996. The aircraft where primarily used for regional flights in and around Taiwan. The final aircraft was decommissioned on 01-06-2016.
B-17920 ended the final flight at Taipai from Kinmen. The airline held a ceremony at Taipei International Airport to say thanks to the MD-90 for 20 years of service. The UNI Air chief executive vice president Chen Shyong-jyh, Civil Aeronautics Administration officials and other government agencies attended the ceremony in which they greeted the final MD-90. All the passengers where given a certificate saying that they were witnesses to the historic moment.
The airline chairman Solomon Lin said that the "MD-90 aircraft were the first-generation fleet in the Evergreen Group, which owns both EVA Air and UNI Air" he also said that "UNI Air had been using them for short-distance flights for both airlines after introducing 14 of the aircraft in 1996". He also added that "the aircraft was used when the nation launched charter flights from Kaohsiung International Airport to Shanghai Pudong International Airport during the Lunar New Year holiday in 2003". "The same aircraft was used for the first weekend charter flights in 2008 from Songshan airport to Pudong airport"
UNI Air stated that the aircraft had been deployed 417,062 times to service routes in Taiwan and its islands, as well as those across the Taiwan Strait, carrying more than 10 million passengers. The UNI air fleet as of 11-06-2016 consists of 2 Airbus A321's and 13 ATR 72's. Making the average fleet age 2.5 years old. UNI Air was started in 1998 as a domestic and regional subsidiary of EVA Air.
McDonnell Douglas MD-90-30 B-17920 flew its first flight in April 1997 with the test registration N9075H and was delivered to UNI Airways on 18th November 1998 and was the final aircraft in the fleet being withdrawn from use on 01-06-2016. It was transferred from TPE-CTS-PKC-ANC-MSP-BYH on 06th-09th June 2016 to be a spares ship for Delta Airlines, ending the MD-90 chapter for Taiwan.
B-17920 ended the final flight at Taipai from Kinmen. The airline held a ceremony at Taipei International Airport to say thanks to the MD-90 for 20 years of service. The UNI Air chief executive vice president Chen Shyong-jyh, Civil Aeronautics Administration officials and other government agencies attended the ceremony in which they greeted the final MD-90. All the passengers where given a certificate saying that they were witnesses to the historic moment.
The airline chairman Solomon Lin said that the "MD-90 aircraft were the first-generation fleet in the Evergreen Group, which owns both EVA Air and UNI Air" he also said that "UNI Air had been using them for short-distance flights for both airlines after introducing 14 of the aircraft in 1996". He also added that "the aircraft was used when the nation launched charter flights from Kaohsiung International Airport to Shanghai Pudong International Airport during the Lunar New Year holiday in 2003". "The same aircraft was used for the first weekend charter flights in 2008 from Songshan airport to Pudong airport"
UNI Air stated that the aircraft had been deployed 417,062 times to service routes in Taiwan and its islands, as well as those across the Taiwan Strait, carrying more than 10 million passengers. The UNI air fleet as of 11-06-2016 consists of 2 Airbus A321's and 13 ATR 72's. Making the average fleet age 2.5 years old. UNI Air was started in 1998 as a domestic and regional subsidiary of EVA Air.
McDonnell Douglas MD-90-30 B-17920 flew its first flight in April 1997 with the test registration N9075H and was delivered to UNI Airways on 18th November 1998 and was the final aircraft in the fleet being withdrawn from use on 01-06-2016. It was transferred from TPE-CTS-PKC-ANC-MSP-BYH on 06th-09th June 2016 to be a spares ship for Delta Airlines, ending the MD-90 chapter for Taiwan.
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