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Old Mar 14, 2007, 1:49 am
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jimbo99
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Hsinchu (Taiwan), Saigon, London
Programs: EVA (diamond), A3, BMI, VN
Posts: 2,960
Originally Posted by NoY
(is it me, or is their website cr*p??!)
Oh yeah its pretty crap, though I can usually get in. Doesn't work properly under Firefox. Also you can't access account stuff during the middle of the night Taiwan time.... evening UK time! Great...

I've always thought free tickets are better value than upgrades with EVA. (Especially as in the old days OP-UPs were pretty common anyway...)

135,000 gets you a completely free ticket to anywhere in Asia in C with a stopover. Can also do open-jaw etc. (Which can end up as "jaw-jaw" as you try to explain to EVA staff that it is really possible...!)

LHR-TPE (a couple of days stopover in Taiwan)
TPE-SGN (look around Saigon)
by land to Cambodia
PNH-TPE-CDG
(own arrangements back to the UK)

etc

Unfortunately the London flights arrive too late in Taiwan and depart too early to connect with anything much else.
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