Eva Air Announces Significant Expansion and Changes for 2019
 

Thanks to the new aircraft coming in, BR will be expanding service to Japan and other Asian destinations as the 787s "partly replace" the A333s and free up additional aircraft. Additional services will be announced in the coming months.

Service Upgauge:

• TPE-SDJ 4x/week increase to daily
• TPE-OKA Increase to 2x daily year round(currently is seasonal 2x)
• TPE-KIX A333 becomes 789
• TPE-NRT A333 becomes 789
• TPE-HAN A321 becomes daily A332(A332s will depart at the end of '19)

New Services:

• TPE-NGO Daily service on 789 starting 09Jun2019
• Service schedule adjusted to:
  • TPE-NGO 0755-1145
  • NGO-TPE 1250-1510
• TPE-AOJ Will commence in 3Q19(Most likely A321)
• TPE-MYJ Will commence in 3Q19(Most likely A321)

Additionally, BR independently confirmed plans to AusBT for 789 aircraft to fly on the BNE route, though an exact date is not set.

EVA Air to significantly expand capacity to Japan | Economics | FOCUS TAIWAN - CNA ENGLISH NEWS

http://www.evaair.com/zh-tw/about-eva-air/news/news-releases/2018/2018-11-26-evaair-jpn-flight.html?filter=

The new service to Japan is great, but I'm going to miss the 2x4x2 A330s...

would be nice, i think we had to pay $350 last time for TPE--NGO.

Didn't they only order 4 789s? How can they do BNE, VIE. AMS, NGO, KIX and NRT?

The Japanese routes run during the day after they arrive back from the international destinations.

It's really a shame the 789s don't have PE. Seems like the perfect aircraft to reintroduce the daytime TPE-JFK flight and other thin North America routes.

They could not do all these with the four 789s. Looking at the week of Aug 12, currently 2 daily NRT, 1 daily NGO and 2 daily KIX (178,130) are scheduled with the 789, yet these operations required all 4 789s to complete. Let alone the VIE/AMS already scheduled. We should see some flights adjusted to 78X soon!

North American route and freq. expansion has been suspended til 4Q2019 and BR has already expressed they have no desire to return to the daytime TPE-JFK flight because of high yield pressure and higher landing fees.

My guess is that SJC and IAD are probably on top of the list. Would you still want it if they use the 787-9, with no PE, for SJC, not that they have enough of these?

It seems to me if the day time JFK flight will not resume, they should really do a day time arrival into the east coast for connection and IAD would be perfect.

789 may be too small to operate this route. I don't see BR wanting to go 2 daily at JFK if they cite high landing fees as a problem.

Premium Economy is really not marketable in short haul, and the feasibility of it being in long haul is not very good unless they are like ANA or JAL where they can just rotate the same aircraft on the same routes. Each time the plane is in short haul it's basically an Economy seat for tiered members. I would expect BR wanting more available seats for sale (especially that 789 has less seats than 333).

I posted on the CI ONT thread that if BR is not willing to make EWR/JFK split service work, would they do LAX/ONT or SFO/SJC?

BR has only done well on PE in SIN, SGN, BKK, PEK, and PVG. This is why these markets maintain PE service. The 789 is not fit for any of these markets as the J count is too low. BR really jammed as many seats into these 789s as possible to move it as close to the A333 as possible, evidenced by the placement of the closets, their galley sizes, and lavatory placements.

Who knows?

But to be fair, majority of asian population is probably closer to JFK than EWR.

SJC is about half/half.

I don't care about PE. Company flies in J. BR7/8 isn't doing well- why not down gauge to 789 and send it to SJC. I would glad take that flight since SJC is like 20 minutes away from my home and office :D

I understand why PE does not work for short haul, but it seems like the sweet spot for the 789 is long thin routes and routes like ATL, DFW, ORD, JFK, SJC would be ideal. Additionally, wasn't there some blow back when BR shifted VIE to the 789 with no PE?

Also, the OEW of the 789 is 86K lbs less than the 77W with respect to landing fees. Is the yield pressure a function of the other daytime TPAC JFK departures? I guess I didn't appreciate the competitive moat JL and NH have built with their longstanding NRT flights.

Yield pressure is from the overall TPAC market out of JFK. With respect to landing fees, daytime landing fees are significantly higher than nighttime fees, which negates any OEW savings.

PEK and PVG is only doing well because of slot restrictions, so technically the only ones that are working are the ones in Southeast Asia.

Yeah they really wanted the 789/78J to be able to replace the 332/333. VIE was really a 332 destination in the past. We will see if it actually works out with this being the new competing route.

24 Boeing 787s (4 -9s and 20 -10s)
 

EVA Air has ordered four Boeing 787-9s and 20 Boeing 787-10s. The first Boeing 787-10 will be delivered in the second quarter of 2019.
I hope that Boeing 787-10s will come with an elite class (premium economy) cabin.

Some Boeing 787-10s will surely be taking over some of these European routes mentioned above, too.

Carfield

I hope you are just repeating old news. If not, please catch up! Orders were placed 3 years ago!

There's more info on their plans in the 2018 outlook thread.

It sounds like the 787-10s are mainly intended for intra-asia flights. Given that the 787-9s don't have PE, it seems doubtful that the 787-10s will.

MFM also returns to 4x daily from Jun. 7th. This winter it operates 25 weekly flights, and usually in the summer months the evening flights got moved to OKA, so it was only 3x daily.

however lots of seats on the 787-10 so maybe they will have PE.

SFO drops down to 18x/week during low-season in 2019 as BR continues to adjust frequencies on a week-by-week basis next year.

Aomori route will be launched on July 17, twice weekly (Wed & Sat.) with a321.

Seattle frequency expansion moved to end of May 2019 (was previously beginning of July).

Indeed when I booked recently for a SEA-BKK-SEA trip in June I was offered the new flights. The flight numbers are BR3/BR4 if memory serves, which I find somewhat interesting.

I stayed with BR25/26 though. I'm afraid that if 3/4 aren't filled up they might get canceled, screwing up my elaborate plans.

Matsuyama service starts 18 July, with 2x weekly service on the A321.

Schedule is as follows pending government approval:

0645-1010 47
1120-1305 47

When is the first 78J scheduled for delivery?

News reports say 2Q 2019.

More expansions coming

Starting July 20., Narita goes triple daily
BR184 0800-1225 TPE NRT 789
BR183 1325-1605 NRT TPE 789.

Starting Aug 12., Phnom Penh (PNH) upgauges from 321 to 332 (except late Sept./early Oct. )

During May/June and Sept/Oct, BR281/282 Cebu(CEB) goes from 321 to 332/333, also BR277/278 (MNL) goes from 321 to 332/333.
During July/Aug, BR158/157 Komatsu(KMQ) goes from 321 to 333 and BR170/169 Seoul (ICN) goes from 321 to 333

I've booked BR316 BNE-TPE in J for Jan next year, which recently just upgraded to A333 lie-flat which is still a slight improvement. Hoping for more solid news on the Dreamliner being deployed on this route over the coming months.

Reported in Taiwan's Economic Daily News today:

• Plan for 4 weekly flights to MXP from early 2020
• Planning underway for a destination in Germany (currently rumoured to be MUC)
• BNE moving to 78J starting Nov 2019

MUC does make a lot of sense being a strong business and tourism destination. But current Taiwan-Germany agreement doesn't allow it yet.
Given LH has not showed interests in serving Taiwan, I am skeptical if the German side would want to negotiate a new deal with Taiwan. :(

I'm kind of surprised that they start to focus on growing in Europe before some U.S. cities! Still remembering a few year ago EVA was talking about expanding to BOS, IAD in North America.. Does EVA even have right to operate route to Germany?

With Europe transitions to 789.. Wonder where they will put their 777s.. The only long haul expansion with 777 now is 3x weekly SEA for now.

But good news for EVA and TPE for getting some new destinations!

North America expansion is on hold because of competition basically... JL and HU took all the potential SE Asia transit traffic ex-BOS and KE is too entrenched in IAD-SE Asia for BR to get in.

The European focus now make sense because it is targeting Taiwan outbound traffic, not SE Asia transit.

MXP is going to be a good station for BR. Lots of outbound Taiwan tourism to Italy and Switzerland that currently routes thru VIE and now be routed open jaw to work with 4x weekly ops. I think the frequency is restricted to 4x by bilateral because CI operates to FCO 3x weekly.

MUC should be a good station too but the bilateral needs to be revised as CI has FRA and each side can only have 1 airline service regardless of which airport. Perhaps the revision is in the works and we just don't know it yet.

I think BR will start returning the older 77W when the lease starts to expire in 2 years. They can easily maintain the fleet capacity by retrofitting all the remaining owned 77W with 10 abreast Y cabin.

I believe it is more JL and CX that are serving SE Asia from Boston... and both with very high load factors (HU is a different story). There is plenty of opportunity for BR to get in the game, particularly if they do so before NH starts HND service. KE only has a single flight from IAD.

I'm also skeptical that there is enough one-way tourism business to Europe for these new routes. NA has overseas Taiwanese, student travel, SE Asia transit, business travel, and Taiwan->abroad tourism. Europe really only captures the last category.

A big assumption to all this is that the new service will be a nonstop TPE-MXP flight, which the article does not say. If it's a fifth freedom flight via BKK then it will capture effectively all of the above categories, noting that if it operates as a day flight from TPE and an evening flight back:

• Morning departure from TPE allows BR to capture SE Asia transit traffic
• BKK-MXP-BKK leg serves OD passengers well with a noon departure from BKK and an evening departure from MXP
• BKK-MXP-BKK will have no overlap with TG's current service which is an evening departure from BKK followed by an early morning arrival back in BKK
• BKK-TPE return leg serves NA connecting traffic