TSA Taipei

How deep the TSA board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from TSA. This reads the same 15 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 5of the 15 destinations are flown by one airline
• 5destinations run less than once a day
• 6destinations have four or more departures a day
• 53.3%of the destinations name UNI Air, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at TSA

13 airlines appear on the TSA board and they do not hold it evenly. UNI Air is on 8 of the 15 destinations, 53.3 per cent of them, and on 3 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 60.7 of the 79.6 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Mandarin Airlines on 6 destinations. 6 of the 13 airlines at TSA appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 8 of the 15 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a TSA sector is usually another UNI Air aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at TSA than the destination count does.

How much of the TSA board is daily

Of the 15 destinations, 10 are flown at least once a day and 5 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the TSA board is flown about twice a day.

An average of 0.29 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: TSA to Wuhan (WUH) is 2 a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 63.7 of the 79.6 departures a day, 80.1 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic TSA is five sectors and a short tail, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests and a hand carry that is not going to one of those five is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Wuhan WUH	China	Mandarin Airlines	2	961	plan this
Hualien City HUN	Taiwan	UNI Air	4	116	plan this
Shanghai PVG	China	UNI Air	4	676	plan this
Chengdu CTU	China	Sichuan Airlines	5	1,834	plan this

The four destinations out of TSA where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable.

The way back from TSA

The desk holds the return direction for 9 of the 15 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 9 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through TSA is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Shanghai (PVG) files 2.1 a day back into TSA against 0.57 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at TSA

TSA keeps Asia/Taipei time, four hours ahead of Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 13:00 at TSA, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for five hours. A customs question raised in the last four hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at TSA until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

Where TSA turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Taiwan country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

Nine courier postings name TSA as the airport a courier here flies from: Taipei, Taichung and Taoyuan.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with TSA already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 15 destinations above.