Originally Posted by
FullTimeFlyer
The complaint I’ve heard about EVA is that you can’t get advance seat assignments, at least on UA-ticketed rewards, and that if you do the staff in TPE give them away anyway. Does anyone know? Since I’m traveling with my wife I place a lot of priority on getting 2 seats together in the middle, not on opposite ends of a 50-seat biz cabin.
That is not true. EVA does not do pre-assignments until 100 days before departure. You need to get your EVA Locator and go to their site to retrieve your reservation. If it is outside the 100 days, it tells you when you can assign seats. If it is inside the 100 days, it will let you pick a seat.
They do hold back a decent number of seats for airport assignment. However, if you do it at the 100 day mark, you should be OK.