EVA Airways to launch new flights to US capitalBy Tsai Yun-jun and Shelley Shan / Staff Reporters, with CNAEVA Airways (長榮航空) yesterday announced that it plans to launch a new flight service to Washington in July, making it the first Taiwanese carrier to provide direct flights to the US capital. The airline plans to provide four flights to Washington in the initial stage using Boeing 787-9s, EVA Airways president Clay Sun (孫嘉明) told reporters in Taipei. EVA Airways Corp aircraft are pictured at Taipei International Airport (Songshan airport) in an undated photograph. Once flights to Washington are launched, the airline would have passenger services to 10 destinations in North America, with 98 weekly flights to the region, he said. Services to Incheon, South Korea, would be expanded from 14 to 18 weekly flights through April 12.
