Originally Posted by
bocastephen
This is kind of like asking “should I buy my clothes at Walmart or Nordstrom?”
While there will be some debate around the seat comfort (I don’t notice a big difference between them), literally everything else between United (Walmart) and EVA (Nordstrom) is no contest.
The only thing I don’t like about EVA is the ex-USA boarding process which is total chaos with mostly contractor agents supervised by 1 or 2 EVA employees and endless lines with poor communication about who needs to check in, get a new boarding pass, etc.
But once on board, everything with the BR experience is vastly, by leaps and bounds, superior to United, and that’s taking into account the major downgrade in EVA RL food quantity.
Very surprising as this is one aspect of EVA that I see the most orderly. Yes I have never flown EVA out of US but in Canada, TPE and Asean countries they have a queue lined up with the zone of boarding and you have to line up like school children behind your board. Not only that they come around the queue, certainly at Zones, 1 & 2 and check your boarding passes. The only thing I do not like is that they board PE last. I asked them why and they said because it is a separate small cabin and it never gets full in the overhead bins and they do not let anyone from economy put anything there. Now this is open to interpretation as I have seen it fairly full but never had to struggle with mine anyway when I travel PE. I get to board in zone 1 too.