Originally Posted by
tris06
The arrival time of 4:50pm would allow tag on flights to say Hong Kong , Bangkok or even to Europe. But most mainland destinations have very limited frequency so I doubt that will be have any chance. The big positive is all those Star alliance members in Taiwan (due to Eva) will now have an option to fly direct where the previous best option was probably like Singapore.
Pretty sure this will mainly be for O&D traffic.
NZ already runs direct/non-stop service to HKG (not to mention the alliance/tie-up with CX)
TG already runs direct/non-stop service to BKK (as far as *A goes)
Market to Europe is already ultra competitive, doubt this will really be an option for European connections, at the moment you got SQ via SIN, CA via PVG or PEK, and of course NZ's own services via LAX.
Definitely the positive being a direct *A service/connection between NZ and Taiwan.