Eva Air has boosted the Airbus Orderbook after exercising six more A350-1000s and three A321neos options.
The transaction disclosed in a stock exchange filing on March 12th is valued at a price of approximately $3.1 billion.
This will be added to existing order books for the Eva Air on the 18 A350 and 15 A321neos, first announced in November 2023 and confirmed in January 2024. The new aircraft is expected to replace Taiwanese airlines Boeing 777-300ers and A321CEOS.
This order means that all major airlines in Taiwan are A350 operators. China Airlines and Starlux operate smaller -900s, and the latter also holds orders of -1000.
In the filing, EVA Air did not provide a delivery timeline for the new aircraft.
The fleet update comes as EVA Air revealed its full-year results for 2024, where operating profit rose 31% to $38.7 billion ($1.17 billion).
This saw revenues rise by 10.3% to $221 billion and costs rise by 6% to over $167 billion.
Separately, the airline has signed a codeshare agreement with Air Macau, covering flights between Taiwan and Macau. Eva Air operates 21 flights per week from Taipei and Kaohsiung to Macau, while Air Macau offers more than 40 flights per week from Macau to Taipei, Taipei and Kaohsiung.
Eva Air said the partnership will “really increase the flexibility of flights between Taiwan and Macau, allowing passengers to connect to other destinations in Air Macau, China.”
