EVA Airways has been named world’s third-best airline in an annual list compiled by the Travel + Leisure magazine.
EVA Air rose one notch from a year earlier to take the No. 3 spot, its best performance since the carrier first broke into the top 10 in 2010.
The New York City-based magazine evaluated airlines based on several factors, including in-flight service, level of comfort in the cabin, reliability of operations and food, for this year’s World’s Best Awards survey.
The magazine in a statement this month said that EVA Air specializes in long-haul trips between Asia and several destinations in the US.
“This is one of the best airlines I’ve ever traveled with,” one person was quoted by the magazine as saying.
“Excellent service and food,” another passenger was cited as saying, while another said: “I can’t wait to fly them again.”
EVA Air said that despite the COVID-19 pandemic, it still won recognition for its services from passengers worldwide.
EVA Air president Sun Chia-ming (孫嘉明) said the carrier’s determination to provide the best quality service possible remains unchanged, although fears over the spread of COVID-19 has prompted the airline to streamline its services.
EVA Air has been keen to use a wide range of technologies to provide its passengers with convenient contactless services to meet their needs amid COVID-19, Sun said.
Singapore Airlines took the top spot in the rankings, with the magazine describing it as “the king of the World’s Best Awards,” saying the carrier is an unprecedented 26-time winner in its annual rankings.
Qatar Airways came second ahead of EVA Air, followed by Emirates, La Compagnie, Turkish Airlines, Japan Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Korean Air and Air New Zealand.
In addition to the best airlines rankings, the magazine also lists the best hotels, best cruise lines and airports.
The survey was conducted from Jan. 11 to May 10 as some countries began easing their COVID-19 restrictions.
EVA Air and Taiwan’s national carrier China Airlines late last month began using the IATA Travel Pass international digital health verification app on a trial basis.
Former Czech Republic-based Taiwanese researcher Cheng Yu-chin (鄭宇欽) has been sentenced to seven years in prison on espionage-related charges, China’s Ministry of State Security announced yesterday. China said Cheng was a spy for Taiwan who “masqueraded as a professor” and that he was previously an assistant to former Cabinet secretary-general Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰). President-elect William Lai (賴清德) on Wednesday last week announced Cho would be his premier when Lai is inaugurated next month. Today is China’s “National Security Education Day.” The Chinese ministry yesterday released a video online showing arrests over the past 10 years of people alleged to be
THE HAWAII FACTOR: While a 1965 opinion said an attack on Hawaii would not trigger Article 5, the text of the treaty suggests the state is covered, the report says NATO could be drawn into a conflict in the Taiwan Strait if Chinese forces attacked the US mainland or Hawaii, a NATO Defense College report published on Monday says. The report, written by James Lee, an assistant research fellow at Academia Sinica’s Institute of European and American Studies, states that under certain conditions a Taiwan contingency could trigger Article 5 of NATO, under which an attack against any member of the alliance is considered an attack against all members, necessitating a response. Article 6 of the North Atlantic Treaty specifies that an armed attack in the territory of any member in Europe,
LIKE FAMILY: People now treat dogs and cats as family members. They receive the same medical treatments and tests as humans do, a veterinary association official said The number of pet dogs and cats in Taiwan has officially outnumbered the number of human newborns last year, data from the Ministry of Agriculture’s pet registration information system showed. As of last year, Taiwan had 94,544 registered pet dogs and 137,652 pet cats, the data showed. By contrast, 135,571 babies were born last year. Demand for medical care for pet animals has also risen. As of Feb. 29, there were 5,773 veterinarians in Taiwan, 3,993 of whom were for pet animals, statistics from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Agency showed. In 2022, the nation had 3,077 pediatricians. As of last
XINJIANG: Officials are conducting a report into amending an existing law or to enact a special law to prohibit goods using forced labor Taiwan is mulling an amendment prohibiting the importation of goods using forced labor, similar to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) passed by the US Congress in 2021 that imposed limits on goods produced using forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region. A government official who wished to remain anonymous said yesterday that as the US customs law explicitly prohibits the importation of goods made using forced labor, in 2021 it passed the specialized UFLPA to limit the importation of cotton and other goods from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur region. Taiwan does not have the legal basis to prohibit the importation of goods