EVA Air: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

EVA Air (長榮航空 Changrong Hangkong, or "Evergreen Airlines") is an airline based at Chiang Kai-Shek International Airport in Taoyuan, Taiwan, near Taipei.

EVA Air is owned by the Evergreen Group, a large shipping company, and was launched in 1991. True to its name, its aircraft are painted in a green livery: the company is also a supporter of the Pan-Green Coalition.

EVA is not part of an airline alliance. It has broad cooperative service arrangements with Air Canada, All Nippon Airways, American Airlines, America West Airlines, Continental Airlines, and Qantas, as well as cargo agreements with British Airways and Lufthansa. Its main competitor is China Airlines.

Fleet

• 19 Boeing 747-400
• 12 McDonnell Douglas MD-11
• 2 Airbus A330-200
• 4 Boeing 767-300ER
• 4 Boeing 767-200
• 1 Boeing 757-200
• 3 McDonnell Douglas MD-90

Asia

East Asia

• Fukuoka, Japan (Fukuoka Airport)
• Hong Kong, SAR, People's Republic of China (Hong Kong International Airport)
• Osaka, Japan (Kansai International Airport)
• Macau, SAR, People's Republic of China (Macau International Airport)
• Sapporo, Japan (New Chitose Airport)
• Taipei, Taiwan (Chiang Kai Shek International Airport, hub)
• Tokyo, Japan (Narita International Airport)

Southeast Asia

• Bangkok, Thailand (Don Muang Airport)
• Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia (Denpasar International Airport)
• Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City International Airport)
• Jakarta, Indonesia (Soekarno-Hatta International Airport)
• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur International Airport)
• Manila, Philippines (Ninoy Aquino International Airport)
• Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Phnom Penh International Airport)
• Singapore (Changi International Airport)
• Surabaya, Indonesia (Surabaya International Airport)

Europe

• Amsterdam, Netherlands (Schiphol International Airport)
• London, United Kingdom (London Heathrow Airport)
• Paris, France (Charles de Gaulle International Airport)
• Vienna, Austria (Vienna International Airport)

North America

• Los Angeles, California (Los Angeles International Airport)
• Newark, New Jersey (Newark Liberty International Airport)
• San Francisco, California (San Francisco International Airport)
• Seattle, Washington (Seattle-Tacoma International Airport)
• Vancouver, British Columbia (Vancouver International Airport)

Oceania

• Auckland, New Zealand (Auckland International Airport)
• Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (Brisbane International Airport)
• Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Kingsford Smith International Airport)

EVA Air is assigned the IATA designator BR and ICAO designator EVA.