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.

(Reuters)