History of Taipei Express

### Introduction

Air Trinity Airways (now Taipei Express) was founded on 28 March 2019 by ATA as Worldwide Airline with its main base in Hong Kong. He then placed a massive order for 137 Tupolev aircraft, consisting of 41 Tu-154Bs, 35 Tu-134Ms and 61 Tu-204-120s. Service commenced on 4 April 2019 with the airline's first inaugural flight between (TBC) and (TBC) with a brand new Tu-154B which arrived the day before.

### First Subsidiary

In July 2019, Hong Kong Cathay Pacific Airlines was bought by Air Trinity Airways to form its subsidiary Air Trinity Hong Kong (ATHK), which operates flights to and from its hub in Hong Kong International.

### Renaming

On the 21st of August 2019, ATA renamed the airline Taipei Express, shifting the airline's main hub to Taipei Taoyuan International and changing the airline's strategy to operating flights to and from Taiwan.

### Bankruptcy

Unfortunately, due to the huge reduction of routes, Taipei Express went bankrupt on 30 August 2019 at 2.24 p.m. (UTC+8). All flights were cancelled with immediate effect.

On 2 September 2019, Taipei Express was revived by ATA, who immediately started retiring most of the Taipei Express fleet to bring the airline back to profitability.

### Cargo Subsidiary

On 5 October 2019, Taipei Express created a Cargo subsidiary, Tide Air, which focuses on Transporting Cargo through its hub in Taipei Taoyuan International. The airline commenced operations on 7 October 2019.

### 2019 Year-End Expansion

On 10 December 2019, an order was placed for 10 A350-900s. This was followed on 12 December with the announcement of 14 new routes to destinations in Europe, the Middle-east and Asia, as well as 3 new seasonal flights to Greenland and a tour around the North Pole. These routes would commence operations from 22 December 2019 to 30 March 2020, with AX35, the North Pole tour, inaugurating on 22 December 2019 and AX399/AX400 to Fukuoka inaugurating on 30 March 2020.

On 16 December 2019, a new subsidiary of Taipei Express was announced: Finavia Airlines. The airline would commence operations on 24 February 2019. On the same day, a new route from Taipei to Helsinki inaugurating on 23 February was announced.

On 19 December 2019, the Republic of China group was announced to be managing Air Express Hong Kong, a subsidiary of Jak Rabbit Air.

### Codeshare Agreements

On 15 February 2020, Taipei Express came to a codeshare agreement with Jak Rabbit Air, with codeshares services starting one week later on 22 February 2020.

On 2 March 2020, Taipei Express came to a codeshare agreement with Linee Aeree Calabre, with codeshare services starting 2 days later on 4 March 2020

### COVID-19

On 2 March 2020, due to poor load factors, AX003/AX004 to Hong Kong and AX11/AX12 to Singapore were temporarily suspended

On 10 March 2020, due to poor load factors again, AX175/AX176 changed aircraft from the Airbus A350-900 to the Tupolev Tu-204-120

On 15 March 2020, Finavia Airlines flight IX1611/IX1612 from Helsinki to Lamezia Terme was be temporarily suspended.

On 16 March 2020, Finavia Airlines flight IX1783/IX1784 from Helsinki to Zurich was temporarily suspended.

On 20 March 2020, Taipei Express flight AX373/AX374 from Taipei to New Delhi was announced to be temporarily suspended from 22 March 2020 to 28 March 2020. The inauguration of Taipei Express flight AX437/AX438 from Taipei to Mumbai, which was due to occur on 23 March 2020, was also postponed to 6 April 2020.

On 27 March 2020, Taipei Express announced the suspension of all its international flights, except the ones to London and Beijing.

On 28 March 2020, Taipei Express flight AX17/AX18 was cut from a daily service to a once-weekly service on Saturdays.

On 4 April 2020, Taipei Express flight AX17/AX18 was temporarily suspended.

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