EVA Firms Order For 26 Boeing Planes
November 24, 2015
Taiwanese full-service carrier EVA Airways has agreed an order worth more than USD$8 billion at list prices for Boeing wide-body aircraft.
The airline will use the 24 Boeing 787-10s and two 777-300ERs to support growth plans in coming years, EVA President Austin Cheng said in a statement.
EVA said it had ordered engines for all 26 planes from General Electric.
The deal comes just over a month after EVA signed a letter of intent for the aircraft, which will be delivered over six years from 2017.
EVA plans to deploy the planes on medium and long-haul routes to Southeast Asia, Oceania and North America.
That will help it tap the increasingly important trans-Pacific market by using its Taipei hub to connect Asian and US cities.