Want China Times
Date: 2015-06-14
By: CNA
EVA Airways (EVA), one of Taiwan’s leading airlines, said high-end business travelers,
An EVA Airways flight. (Photo/China Times)
including people in the oil business, will be its major passenger base on the Taipei-Houston route set to be launched June 19.
EVA president Austin Cheng told CNA during the just-concluded annual meeting of the International Airline Transport Association (IATA) in Miami, Florida that he expects the route to serve especially oil businessmen.
There are many such businesspeople traveling between oil-rich Houston and Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia, Cheng said.
“We hope to make Taiwan another ideal transfer option for these business travelers,” he said. [FULL STORY]