Company History
Date of Incorporation : April,07,1989
Major Milestones
- EVA Air will launch a direct flight route between Kaohsiung to Hong Kong, fully deploying the Hong Kong and Macau markets.
- EVA Air was awarded the “Five Star Global Airlines” by APEX for two consecutive years.
- Signed a contract with Boeing Company to purchase five 787-9 aircraft, and signed a contract with Airbus Company to purchase eighteen A350-1000 and fifteen A321neo aircraft.
- EVA Air launched direct flight routes between Taipei to Clark and to Toronto for freighter destination, becoming the only airline in Taiwan to provide the freighter services to Toronto.
- AirlineRatings.com recognized EVA Air the 8th of 2023 “World’s Top-25 Airlines”, and ranked among “World’s Top-20 Safest Airlines” for ten consecutive years, becoming the only airline in Taiwan to be included in the list.
- SKYTRAX announced EVA Air as the “5-Star Airline” for eight consecutive years, and ranked 1st among “World's Best Premium Economy Class Airlines”, “World's Best Premium Economy Class Airline Catering” and “Best Premium Economy Class Airlines in Asia”, 3rd among “Best Airline Staff in Asia” and “Best Premium Economy Class Airline Seats”, 4th among “World’s Best Airline Cabin Crew” and “Best Business Class Airline Comfort Amenities”, 5th of “Best Airlines in Asia”, 6th among “World’s Cleanest Airline”, “World’s Best Airport Services” and “Best Economy Class Airline Catering”, 7th of “Best Economy Class Airline Seats”, 8th of “World's Best Economy Class Airlines”, 9th among “World’s Top-10 Airlines”, “Best Business Class Airline Onboard Catering” and “World’s Most Family Friendly Airline”.
- EVA Air was listed 10th of 2023 “World's Best International Airlines” on the Travel+Leisure Magazine.
- Condé Nast Traveler’s Readers rated EVA Air the 8th among “The best airlines for food” and “Best International Airlines in North America”, and 9th of “The best airlines in the world”.
- World Travel Awards recognized EVA Air as “Asia’s Leading Airline – Premium Economy Class 2023” for the first time.
- Received “Sports Activist Awards” – Sponsorship Award Gold Class again, which is organized by Sports Administration, Ministry of Education. EVA Air is the only airline receiving the award domestically.
- For the first time, EVA Air won the “Sustainability Reporting Award – Silver Class” in the GCSA and “Creativity in Communication Leadership Award” in the TCSA. For the sixth year in a row, we won a “Platinum Award for Transportation Industry – Sustainability Report Category”. We were awarded the “Taiwan Top 100 Sustainable Enterprises Award – Corporate Sustainable Comprehensive Performance Category”, and the “Growth through Innovation Leadership Award”, the “Sustainable Supply Chain Leadership Award”, and the “Climate Leadership Award” in Single Performance Category for two consecutive years, a total of seven awards.
- Won third place in the aviation industry in the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment, and awarded the “Top 5% S&P Global ESG Score” for two consecutive years.
- Conducted greenhouse gas inventories according to ISO 14064-1 and obtained third-party verification for eight consecutive years.
- EVA Air collaborated with Chung Yuan Christian University to launch the world’s first “EVA Air ESG Environmental Innovative Design Competition”, demonstrating the emphasis on sustainable values.
- 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 “Best Overall Airline in Eastern Asia and Best Cabin Service” in the Global Passenger Choice Awards by APEX.
- EVA Air launched direct flight routes between Taipei to Milan and Munich.
- AirlineRatings.com recognized EVA Air the 8th of 2022 “World’s Top-20 Airlines”, and “Seven Star Certification for COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention” for two consecutive years.
- Won second place in the aviation industry in the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment.
- EVA Air signed up for the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
- 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 Top-10 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 airline 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 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 2021 “World’s Top-20 Airlines”, and “World’s Top-20 COVID-19 Compliant Airlines”.
- 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 2021 “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 in 2021 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 Best Performance for Service Category – Social Inclusion Awards”, “Corporate Comprehensive Performance – Taiwan TOP50 Corporate Sustainability Award and Excellent Performance Award” in the TCSA 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 placed by fully-flat beds and named as “Royal Laurel Class”.
- 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 acquired general aviation permission and became the first airline company that provided periodical flights and business jets services.
- EVA Air signed agreements with the Boeing Company to introduce twenty four 787 Dreamliners and two 777-300ERs.
- 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 and UNI Air provided cross-strait charter flights services since July 4, 2008.
- Joined IATA as e-freight airline with the e-AWB service became a milestone of EVA Air.
- Selected as “Top 100 Brands” by Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).
- 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 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.
- 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 Air 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.