Starlux Airlines Adds Phoenix Route, Exciting New Asia To Arizona Link

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The swift ramp-up in capacity is startling, and understandably so. But I think people may be surprised by just how much burgeoning demand there might be, for PHX-TPE service:

Moov, Microchip TI, Onsemi, ASM, and Anadigm are PHX-based semiconductor companies that may have an interest in supporting these flights... so it's not just TSMC.

Freeport McMoRan is likely going to be another huge supporter. They're the 2nd largest mining company in the country, with most of their ops between their Phoenix headquarters and SE Asia. These finally give them 1-stop option to far more destinations than any other carrier now provides.

I've never seen a 3 hour block difference between Eastbound and Westbound flights. For example, Eva Air's TPE-IAH route only shows an hour difference (14h30 Eastbound and 15h30 Westbound).

Any idea if there will be any special or differentiated ground services for First Class passengers at PHX?

The point redemption between the Starlux and China Eastern is quite significant. Booking China Eastern on AF is 36K miles +$129. Booking Starlux on Alaska is 62.5K + $19. For a $550 cash rate one way, it doesn't make sense to use awards.

I think the calculation of time didn't take into account that Arizona is an hour ahead of California in January (unlike now, when it's the same time in Phoenix as in LA because Arizona does not use DST). StarLux says its current flight from TPE to LAX takes 12 hours. Are they going to speed up the jets so they average 612 mph? Or is it really a 13-hour flight?

I agree that 62k is to much for an econ flight to Asia but I've seen award flights on starlux from SFO and LAX for 42.5k in economy, 55k in PE and I recently booked Bkk to SFO in business for 85k.

These dumb dumbs want 250K in Alaska miles for business class each way. LOL. No thanks.

What’s interesting is that StarLux Flight 1 (LAX to TPE) just landed with a flight time of 12 hours and 40 minutes for the 6,794 miles. And Flight 2 (TPE to LAX) is en route with an estimated time of 12 hours and 50 minutes.

Clearly, Ben’s computation of flight times for the 7,401 miles from TPE to PHX were made at the end of a long trip with not enough sleep.

But, but.... you have not mentioned the most important thing. How can we use miles to fly this route and availability.

I don't see any saver award availability for this flight on Alaska Airlines' website.
Is it gone already?

A connection or two between Taipei and India (which has not restarted post-pandemic) will make this route a bigger success.

Following that other trans-pacific flight connections to/from PHX (JAL??) will get started.

I've been in South East Asia for about a month, and everywhere I have been - Bangkok, HCMC, Chiang Mai, Samui, Singapore, Hanoi - the ads for all three Taiwanese carriers have been ubiquitous. Particularly in Bangkok, you simply cannot miss them if you try (including the EVA one with the corrected spelling of 'Sapporo' - the ad features a list of all of their North American and Asian destinations, with first 'o' clearly having to have been corrected...I'm sure someone got in trouble for that!).

On Starlux in Oneworld: With Starlux's plans on PHX, perhaps AA and City of PHX can help Starlux's entry to Oneworld.

Perhaps Cathay, who many think are an obstacle to the above, can be told that, either they fly to/from PHX direct or not hinder Starlux's entry to Oneworld. (May be this is wishful thinking on my part.)

the stop in LAX aside, the CI departure and arrival times are much better