The taiwan based Ever Green group which today is a conglomerate of shipping, transportation, and associated service companies, is the 4th largest containerized shipping company over the world! One of its prestigious projects is the eva airlines, the largest privately owned taiwanese airlines. In addition to eva air, which is the international airline of ever green group, another airline, the uni air is the airline that carried the domestic flights.
The announcements for eva airline were made on the 20th anniversary of the ever green group, in 1988 i.e. . The Government can be held responsible partially for this fortuitous decision, since basically the government had decided in favor of liberalization of air traveling in the country. The opportunity was immediately grabbed by ever green and eva airways was launched.
The airline name was supposed to be ever green but since another airline exists with the same name, the group decided on eva airline. The airline had begun with a small fleet but expanded quickly. It introduced its first economy class, the economy deluxe not until 1992.
With growth, eva airlines took shares in china airlines as well as taiwan airways to launch the privately owned domestic airline, uni.
Since ever green was a multinational, eva airlines did not need much effort to expand. It is also a part of quite a few vacation deals, with stays offered at ever green hotels and resorts. With time, ever green also formed the eva air cargo, with the expansion of the eva airways.
Eva air also has its own catering service. The choices offered range from the western to the chinese as well as taiwanese cuisine. The seasonal menus offer various snacks, depending upon the destinations f course. The table ware is real noritake. The meal options are offered according to religion as well.
There is special food for the elderly as well as the children, if the need is made clear at the time of the purchase of the ticket. These special meals are not mentioned on the web site and are to be order at least 24 hours before your date of departure. Also, eva airlines does offer this option, but in case your flight schedule changes or is cancelled, the food order stands cancelled too, and for another flight another order will have to be place. The cuisine options are positively mouth watering. For meetings, there are snacks like tea-Braised Lamb Chops with Shiso Prune Sauce and /or Wok Fried Prawn with Pepper and Chili with tea of your choice. For mornings, there are tiger prawns, egg benedict and coffee, and friend apricot mushrooms for lunches. This is just an insight into the colorful varieties you can go for. If nothing else, the cuisine itself cries for flying with the eva air.
In addition to this, there is also a frequent flyer program , like that of every other airline, of eva airline, called the ever green club. The best thing about the club is that if you gain mileage points, you can transfer the credit to any other project of ever green. For example, if you are qualified for a 50 % discount on your air fare and instead want to utilize the discount else where, like maybe freight services, you can do that with no transfer charges at all. The cargo service of eva airways is excellent. The point to point routes make it extremely efficient service, adding yet another commendable name to the credit of the ever green group. The cargo service of eva air stands 6th in the entire world, and 50 cargo services.
The in flight entertainment of the airline actually has a name- star gallery. There is AVOD with more than 40 movies, as well as music albums and short features aboard all the flights of eva airlines. The ever green group has surely made a sound investment.
