Late last year, EVA Air announced that it planned to launch flights to its newest destination in North America as of late 2025. There’s now an update, as the schedule has been revealed, and the flight is on sale (thanks to AeroRoutes for flagging this).
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EVA Air will start flying to Dallas, Texas
As of October 3, 2025, EVA Air will launch a new route between Taipei (TPE) and Dallas (DFW). The 7,718-mile flight will operate 3x weekly, with the following schedule:
BR50 Taipei to Dallas departing 7:45PM arriving 7:05PM
BR49 Dallas to Taipei departing 10:50PM arriving 5:25AM (+2 days)
The flight will operate on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, in each direction, and is blocked at 13hr20min eastbound and 16hr35min westbound. EVA Air will use a Boeing 777-300ER for the route, featuring 333 seats, including 39 business class seats, 56 premium economy seats, and 238 economy seats.
Personally I’m a huge fan of EVA Air’s business class, and rank it among the best in the world. While the hard product isn’t that great, EVA Air’s soft product is phenomenal, from the food, to the drinks, to the amenities, to the service.
How Dallas fits into EVA Air’s route network
Dallas will be EVA Air’s ninth destination in North America, complementing service to Chicago (ORD), Houston (IAH), Los Angeles (LAX), New York (JFK), San Francisco (SFO), Seattle (SEA), Toronto (YYZ), and Vancouver (YVR).
An EVA Air executive notes how DFW has the third highest passenger volume in the world (after ATL and DXB), and also mentions how many tech companies have moved from Silicon Valley to Texas. It’s also noted how both passengers and cargo can easily connect from DFW to Central and South America.
Keep in mind that EVA Air is in Star Alliance. DFW is a fortress hub for American, which is in oneworld. So while the two airlines don’t really have a commercial partnership, they do interline with one another, so it’ll be possible to book tickets on itineraries that include travel on both airlines.
The route seems easy enough to justify even without partnerships, given how big Dallas is as a market. However, I can’t help but wonder if there’s a bit more to this as well. Keep in mind that Taiwan has three global carriers — China Airlines, EVA Air, and Starlux Airlines. While China Airlines is in SkyTeam and EVA Air is in Star Alliance, Starlux Airlines is hoping to join the oneworld alliance.
Now, it remains to be seen if anything comes of that, though it almost seems like EVA Air might be trying to beat Starlux to the punch when it comes to launching this route, maybe to capture some local contracts. That being said, there’s of course nothing preventing both airlines from operating the route. Heck, there are four airlines flying from both San Francisco and Seattle to Taipei.
For that matter, we’re also seeing Cathay Pacific launch a route to Dallas, out of Hong Kong, so that’s another great new connection between Texas and Asia.
Bottom line
As of October 2025, EVA Air will launch a new 3x weekly flight between Taipei and Dallas with a 777. This route is now on sale, and is a great new option for getting between Dallas and Asia. EVA Air is a world class airline, so I’d take this flight in a heartbeat. This will be EVA Air’s ninth destination in North America, and seems like a logical enough addition.
What do you make of EVA Air launching Dallas flights?
It's good to see a great airline like EVA add routes to the U.S.
It’s sad that EVA, for all its expansion and product innovation, is still not as globally renowned as CX or SQ. That’s largely due to a total lack of self-promotion, other than (of course) the Hello Kitty partnership.
The fact that Ben keeps mentioning that BR’s business product is among the best in the world clearly points, to me at least, the importance of reiterating how far Taiwanese airlines have come — if not for...
It’s sad that EVA, for all its expansion and product innovation, is still not as globally renowned as CX or SQ. That’s largely due to a total lack of self-promotion, other than (of course) the Hello Kitty partnership.
The fact that Ben keeps mentioning that BR’s business product is among the best in the world clearly points, to me at least, the importance of reiterating how far Taiwanese airlines have come — if not for these mentions and reviews, the general public might not know how good they are.
While Starlux is the ‘sexy’ one, BR, and even more so CI, mostly seem to fly under the radar of non-TPAC/ASEAN fliers compared to ANA/JAL or CX/SQ. With a good advertising campaign, I think BR and CI might improve their public perception — the product’s great, just let people know about it!
Just use your imagination
I wouldn't say it's a lack of self promotion. They simply just have a smaller network. When you fly to less places, less people know or care about you, they don't fly to India, Africa, South America, or the ME, and a very small Europe footprint. They basically don't have a real codesharing partnership in the US, UA charges obscene rates in full fare economy to do so. Most of their feed comes from interline,...
I wouldn't say it's a lack of self promotion. They simply just have a smaller network. When you fly to less places, less people know or care about you, they don't fly to India, Africa, South America, or the ME, and a very small Europe footprint. They basically don't have a real codesharing partnership in the US, UA charges obscene rates in full fare economy to do so. Most of their feed comes from interline, which is from people that already know about EVA already.
Taiwanese airlines for the most part are focused solely on the Asia market, and less so for the Western world. There's not much advertising does for you, if you don't service those places in your network. Plenty of people in Asia know about EVA, they're just not a global brand like Emirates or Qatar, and don't aspire to be.
CI, BR, and JX all seem to have a strategy of serving destinations that has proven O/D demand, making sure to charge a hefty premium for ex-TPE tickets, while connecting passengers are secondary considerations to fill seats.
It's why you see them adding frequencies to places like ONT and dozens of small Japanese cities, and cutting low-yielding ones that don't have much O/D demand (e.g., DEL). They're definitely not looking to serve as many...
CI, BR, and JX all seem to have a strategy of serving destinations that has proven O/D demand, making sure to charge a hefty premium for ex-TPE tickets, while connecting passengers are secondary considerations to fill seats.
It's why you see them adding frequencies to places like ONT and dozens of small Japanese cities, and cutting low-yielding ones that don't have much O/D demand (e.g., DEL). They're definitely not looking to serve as many destinations as possible a la the ME3. DFW makes sense in this context due to the Taiwanese population in Texas and tech industry connections.
That said, the lack of US codeshare partners (beyond AS and B6) is definitely frustrating for those looking to travel beyond the costal gateways. Feels more caused by US airlines heavily favoring their JV partners, than the lack of willingness of the Taiwanese airlines though.
Visualise.
In December you said how it was hard for Korea to maintain 2 airlines (KE and OZ) with only 50 million people, could you do an article about how Taiwan with only 25 million, is managing to have 3! I think you and I are both fascinated by this!
Geographically, Taiwan provides much easier onward connections to SE Asia than Korea (Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, etc)
Korean conglomerates have a lot more control of the government and industry. That's what leads to consolidations like these.
Also Taiwanese airlines have much smaller networks and fleet size. Korean Air has about as many passenger planes as CI and BR combined.
Lastly, there's a lot more Mandarin speakers in Asia (not just China), like Malaysia, Singapore, etc. People from those regions probably feel comfortable flying with a carrier that can speak the same language...
Korean conglomerates have a lot more control of the government and industry. That's what leads to consolidations like these.
Also Taiwanese airlines have much smaller networks and fleet size. Korean Air has about as many passenger planes as CI and BR combined.
Lastly, there's a lot more Mandarin speakers in Asia (not just China), like Malaysia, Singapore, etc. People from those regions probably feel comfortable flying with a carrier that can speak the same language vs using English that both the pax and FA may not be as fluent in.
TW has awesome airlines and a decent airport. I just wish they’d market themselves more.
TW has awesome airlines and a decent airport. I just wish they’d market themselves more.
Don't forget the majority of the semiconductor industry is based in Taiwan and with the world revolving around tech.
Don't forget the majority of the semiconductor industry is moving out of Taiwan and with the world revolving around Trump.
I wish they’d release more than 1 business class seat to partners for booking EVA Air from the US to Taipei.
interesting- they’re flying at almost identical times to Cathay, and on the exact 3x days that Cathay isn’t.
And with the same amount of seats! However the A350 gets the upper hand for efficiency and comfort. And CX gets in roughly 2 hours earlier to help facilitate with connections.
I've always found EVA's flight times for the US returns to be less than ideal. You depart at late night, just to arrive back in the US at night time. It definitely maximizes connections on the Asia side, but not great for US connectivity or jetlag.
Outbound from the US, they're great for sleeping overnight and getting in a full day of connections. ANA/JAL have much preferable late afternoon/early evening departures that land mid-morning.
Waiting for EVA to fly to Washington Dulles!!!
I can also see Boston, Las Vegas (for CES), San Jose (Silicon Valley)
They used to fly to IAD and EWR I believe.
I think airspace makes it hard to do right now, but should be back at some point, certainly IAD at least. EWR remains a second class citizen to JFK.
Only Newark, never Dulles. You'll see a lot more expansion once the A350s start coming in.
Lucky, please get a better picture of an ANA plane, or at least color-correct this one. It's appalling that a website with this much traffic uses cheap-looking cellphone images on a regular basis.
Excuse me, EVA
Your a huge fan of their business class! Strange because their business class dont have door. We all know you have a thing with doors
And onboard showers. Doors and showers...
They need to come to ATL.
I can imagine they want to get their A350s for these types of routes ASAP. JFK, Chicago, Toronto, and Houston are all perfect for the A350s.
This gets a "so what" from me. CI and BR for a long time could only compete on price. they're not first-movers, always followers. They all started flying to SEA and ONT, for instance. CI started LHR for what... no good reason. JAL beat them to DFW. Fundamentally all 3 of them and JAL/ANA all want SE Asia connecting passengers, which is Cathay's business model and there's still more competition out there.
The Taiwanese...
This gets a "so what" from me. CI and BR for a long time could only compete on price. they're not first-movers, always followers. They all started flying to SEA and ONT, for instance. CI started LHR for what... no good reason. JAL beat them to DFW. Fundamentally all 3 of them and JAL/ANA all want SE Asia connecting passengers, which is Cathay's business model and there's still more competition out there.
The Taiwanese are gonna be reduced to bargain basement, again, as they always do in industries like PC. They're like the Rust Belt of Asia, very redneck compared to Cathay, and it's hard for them to get, let alone pitch, a finer-things-in-life kind of product. Starlux is the closest to success, but they need enough planes in the fleet first.
The "rust belt of Asia" that has cornered the world semiconductor market and shat all over the US from the height at which the Space Station orbits earth?
You're either seriously misinformed, a liar, or insane.
If Corporate America did not do what they did to Morris Chang, he would not have left the US and started TSMC. Also, a country having an export industry is not "shitting all over the US." Blame your capitalism. Corporate America and especially Ronald Reagan are the ones who hollowed out US manufacturing.
And: I suggest you don't call a Taiwanese citizen lying or insane on Taiwanese matters. How much do you know about a...
If Corporate America did not do what they did to Morris Chang, he would not have left the US and started TSMC. Also, a country having an export industry is not "shitting all over the US." Blame your capitalism. Corporate America and especially Ronald Reagan are the ones who hollowed out US manufacturing.
And: I suggest you don't call a Taiwanese citizen lying or insane on Taiwanese matters. How much do you know about a country? We're all just talking points to ignorant a-holes like you.
The rust bucket of Asia is Vietnam, not the Republic of China (Taiwan). America should join Taiwan so that, being China, America could then claim Beijing under the People's Republic of China's One China policy. The capital of the expanded Republic of China would then be Taipei in name but in Washington in practice.