EVA Puts One More B777 to Work in Los Angeles
Adds 7th brand-new Boeing aircraft to the fleet

TAIPEI, TAIWAN (23 Aug., 2007) – EVA Air’s seventh brand-new Boeing 777-300ER is ready to be placed in service between Taipei and Los Angeles.  EVA Air president Peter Chen accepted delivery of the aircraft in a ceremony at the Boeing factory in Everett, WA on 22 Aug., 2007.  Later this year, the airline will add an eighth B777 to its fleet and also use it on Los Angeles trips.

EVA began deploying new B777s on the Los Angeles route in 2006 and has a load factor this summer of approximately 95 percent.  With this addition, EVA will operate these aircraft on 14 of its 17 weekly flights to the Southern California gateway.  EVA BR12 departs Taoyuan International Airport daily at 18:40 (6:40 p.m.) and BR11 returns from Los Angeles at 17:30 (5:30 p.m.).  The daily BR16 flight leaves Taipei at 23:55 (11:55

p.m.) and returning BR15 takes off at 01:20 (1:20 a.m.).      EVA added special mood lighting in Premium Laurel and Elite Class cabins on the new B777s that is timed to help regulate body clocks.  These lights have six levels, starting with sunrise and continuing through midday, sunset, evening, relaxation and night-time.  Subtle changes in brightness help passengers adjust to time-zone variations on trans-Pacific travel, make long flights more pleasant and bring the outside sky onboard.  And in the Premium Laurel cabin, passengers can lie back under a twinkling, star-lit sky filled with constellations such as Orion, Ursa Major, Pegasus, Cygnus, Auriga and Centaurus. EVA configured its B777s to carry 316 passengers in three cabins.  Premium Laurel Class has 42 spacious seats and comfortably gives an increased number of travelers the luxury, top-cabin option.  Elite, a new, improved version of the innovative premium economy cabin that EVA introduced in 1992, seats 63 passengers and Economy is outfitted for 211 travelers.  Every passenger on EVA’s B777s has access to his/her own interactive Star Gallery Audio/Video on Demand (AVOD) entertainment system with movies, features, music and video games, and digital air-to-ground, easy-to-access Short Message Service (SMS) in English and Chinese for sending messages to mobile phones or e-mail addresses.  Passengers also enjoy meals served piping hot from steam ovens, and lavatories with touch-free infrared faucets that are kept tidy inflight. EVA flies a total of 36 flights a week between Taiwan and the United States, giving travelers convenient access to and from an extensive network of destinations throughout Asia.  In addition to its Los Angeles frequency, EVA has 12 flights a week to San Francisco and seven to Seattle, three of which continue onward to Newark.  And it flies to Vancouver five times a week.  Passengers can book, buy and reserve seats on EVA’s user friendly web site at http://www.evaair.com/.