Company History
Date of Incorporation : April,07,1989
Major Milestones
- EVA Air was awarded the “Five Star Global Airlines” by APEX again.
- Awarded as one of the “World’s Top-20 Safest Airlines” by AirlineRatings.com for ten consecutive years; ranked ninth this year.
- Signed a contract with Boeing Company to purchase five 787-9 aircraft.
- EVA Air launched direct flights between Taipei to Clark.
- EVA Air launched e-Library with digital books and magazines available for passengers inflight reading, which is the first airline in Taiwan.
- EVA Air signed with Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI) for the conversion of three Boeing 777-300ER from passenger to freighter configuration starting from 2025.
- EVA Air was awarded the “Five Star Global Airline”, and “Best Overall Airline in Eastern Asia and Best Cabin Service” in the Global Passenger Choice Awards.
- EVA Air launched direct flights between Taipei to Milan and Munich.
- AirlineRatings.com recognized EVA Air the 8th of “World’s Top-20 Airlines”, 9th of “World’s Top-20 Safest Airlines” and “Seven Star Certification for COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention”.
- EVA Air won five awards in the TCSA, namely the “Taiwan Top 100 Sustainable Enterprises Award – Corporate Sustainability Comprehensive Performance Category”, the “Platinum Award for Transportation Industry – Corporate Sustainability Report Category”, as well as the “Growth through Innovation Leadership Award”, the “Sustainable Supply Chain Leadership Award” and the “Climate Leadership Award” in Single Performance Category.
- Participated in the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment and won second place in the aviation industry. S&P Global released the 2023 Sustainability Yearbook, and EVA Air was awarded the “Top 5% S&P Global ESG Score”.
- EVA Air was awarded CAA’s 2016 “Golden Flyer Award” for International and Cross-Strait Route Group.
- Business Traveller awarded EVA Air the Gold Medal of 2016 “Best Business Class Cellar”, “Best First Class Sparkling” and 2017 “Best Business Class Sparkling”.
- EVA Air ranked the world’s safest airlines on the annual index reported by Germany’s AERO International Magazines for fifteen consecutive years.
- The first 777 freighter B-16781 was delivered in Boeing Company in Seattle, U.S.A.
- EVA Air was the only company that had been awarded the top 5% of the corporate governance evaluation by Taiwan Stock Exchange among the TWSE/TPEx Listed Companies for three consecutive years.
- SKYTRAX announced EVA Air as the “5-Star Airline” for four consecutive years, 2019 “World's Best Airline Cabin Cleanliness”, “World's Best Economy Class Catering”, and ranked 6th among “The World’s Top Ten Best Airlines”, and in 2021, SKYTRAX ranked EVA Air the 4th of “World's Best Economy Class Catering”, 5th of “Best Airline in Asia”, “World’s Best Airline Cabin Cleanliness”, “World's Best Business Class Airlines”, 6th of “World’s Best Airport Services”, 7th place among “World’s Top-10 Airlines”, “World’s Best Airline Cabin Crew” and “Best Airline Staff in Asia”.
- TripAdvisor recognized EVA Air “World’s Top-10 Best Airlines”, “World’s Best Business Class”, “Best Airline in Asia”, “Best Business Class in Asia” and “Best Premium Economy Class in Asia”.
- AirlineRatings.com recognized EVA Air the 9th of “World’s Top-20 Airlines”, 6th of “World’s Top-20 Safest Airlines”, “World’s Top-20 COVID-19 Compliant Airlines” with “Seven Star Certification for COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention”.
- EVA Air took the lead in launching the facial recognition system at San Francisco International Airport in U.S. to speed up boarding process.
- EVA Air tested the digital health passport verification platform with Affinidi and AOKpass, and collaborated with International Air Transport Association (IATA) to introduce the IATA Travel Pass.
- EVA Air earned certification from the IATA’s Center of Excellence for Independent Validators in Pharmaceutical Logistics (CEIV Pharma).
- EVA Air was listed 3rd of “The World’s Best International Airlines” on the Travel + Leisure Magazine.
- Condé Nast Traveler’s Readers rated EVA Air the 7th of “Top 10 Airlines Carrier” for first time.
- Participated in the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment for the first time and won third place in the aviation industry. S&P Global released the 2022 Sustainability Yearbook, and EVA Air was awarded the “Silver Class” rating in the airline industry.
- Won the “Corporate Sustainability Report Category – Transportation Platinum Award” in the TCSA for four consecutive years, also won the “Corporate Sustainability Best Performance for Service Category – Social Inclusion Awards”, “Corporate Comprehensive Performance – Taiwan TOP50 Corporate Sustainability Award” and “Corporate Sustainability Overall Performance Category – Excellent Performance Award” in 2017, 2020, and 2021.
- EVA Air Sky Jet Center was available to provide services which makes the service function in Taipei Songshan Airport more complete.
- EVA Air started 777-300ER aircraft renovation. The Business Class will be placed by fully-flat beds and named as “Royal Laurel Class”.
- EVA Air recognized as “The World’s Best Airline” from CommonWealth Magazine’s Golden Service Awards survey.
- EVA Air was awarded CAA’s 2012 “Golden Flyer Award” for International and Cross-Strait Route Group.
- Became a Star Alliance member since 2013.
- EVA Air received “Best Business Class Sparkling” and “Best Business Class White” of Business Traveller’s Cellar in the Sky Awards 2013.
- EVA Air acquired general aviation permission and became the first airline company that provided periodical flights and business jets services.
- EVA Air was recognized as 2014 Top 10 “The World’s Best Long-Haul Airlines” by The Telegraph, U.K. leading media, annual reader’s select.
- SKYTRAX announced EVA Air as the 2015“Best Airline Cabin Cleanliness”, 2016 “Best Transpacific Airline”, “Best Business Class Comfort Amenities” and the 3rd “World’s Most Loved Airlines”.
- EVA Air signed agreements with the Boeing Company to introduce twenty four 787 Dreamliners and two 777-300ERs.
- EVA Air was recognized as Top 10 “World’s Safest Airlines” by AirlineRating.com.
- Recognized 2007 “Best Wines on the Wing” by Global Traveler, a famous travel magazine of U.S.
- EVA Air received The Richard Teller Crane Founder’s Award from the 60th annual International Air Safety Summit (IASS). Since the coveted award was established, EVA Air was the first Asian airline and only the second airline among all recipients to receive it.
- EVA Air ranked 1st as the 2008 “Best Ideal Brand of International Airline” for the second year from the surveys of Taiwanese consumers, Management Magazine.
- Wanderlust, a leading travel magazine U.K., recognized EVA Air Silver Award of 2008 “Best Airline”.
- EVA Air ranked 2nd “Best White” and 5th “Best Red” of 2007 Cellars in the Sky Awards, published by Business Traveller, a worldwide famous travel magazine.
- Air Cargo World, a famous cargo magazine, ranked EVA Air 6th of 2008 “Air Cargo World’s Air Cargo Excellence Survey”. EVA Air was the second Asian airline to win the prize and surpassed most of famous airlines that were mainly in charge of cargo business.
- EVA Air was recognized 2008 “White Gold Medal” among the Reputation Brand investigation of Reader’s Digest magazine.
- EVA Air and UNI Air provided cross-strait charter flights services since July 4, 2008.
- EVA Air ranked 1st of “Best Premium Economy Class” in the 2008 Airlines services Rating of SKYTRAX.
- Joined IATA as e-freight airline with the e-AWB service became a milestone of EVA Air.
- EVA Air recognized as “World’s Best 10 Airlines” by Travel & Leisure, a leading traveling magazine of U.S.
- Selected as “Top 100 Brands” by Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).
- EVA Air was awarded Travel Weekly’s Magellan Award Gold winner for international economy class.
- Certificated Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) by Customs Administration, Ministry of Finance.
- EVA Air took delivery of its first A330-200 aircraft and introduced new generation of business class, Premium Laurel Class.
- EVA Air Europe Cargo Center was established.
- EVA Air made a successful record in Taiwan to assist Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) transport the 8-inch wafer fab from Taipei to Shanghai.
- EVA Air took delivery of the first 777-300ER aircraft (B-16701) in Boeing Company in Seattle, U.S.
- EVA Air opened Southern China Cargo Center in Hong Kong, enabling it to acquire market information, integrate regional cargo goods and discuss regional cooperation plans with local forwarders, which make EVA Air move air freight shipments in and out of the region, prepare business plan, sell and discover customers more efficiently and quickly.
- The Company’s stocks were listed for sale in OTC.
- The Company moved into new terminal and provided services to customers, after the opening of terminal 2 of Taoyuan International Airport.
- EVA secured approval to transfer its stocks listing from OTC and moved its shares to the Taiwan Stocks Exchange (TWSE).
- EVA Air was founded on March 8, 1989 by Group Chairman Y. F. Chang and registered on April 7, 1989. The Company immediately prepared for flight operation. The authorized capital was NT$ 10 billion and the paid-up capital was NT$2.5 billion.
- First Flight was launched on July 1, 1991.