EVA Air celebrates Delivery of Airline's First Boeing 777-300ER

EVA Air today celebrated delivery of its first Boeing 777-300ER (Extended Range) airplane. The airplane is the first of 15 Boeing 777s that EVA Air will receive through 2009.

"The new Boeing 777-300ER equipment will fully upgrade our service quality," said EVA Air Chairman, Steve Lin. "With the most spacious passenger cabin ever developed, the aircraft will provide an even more spacious Premium Laurel cabin. We will also introduce a new ‘Elite Class' and upgraded Economy Class with the introduction of the new aircraft. I believe our passengers will love the product enhancements we are making."

The twin-engine EVA Air 777-300ER carries 316 passengers in a three-class configuration and flies up to 7,705 nautical miles (14,270 kilometers). The airplane is capable of serving such routes as New York - Taipei and Taipei - London.

The 777-300ER uses GE's GE90-115B jet engines.

The EVA Air 777-300ER is also equipped with the Boeing Electronic Flight Bag (EFB). Using hardware from Astronautics Corp. of America and software from Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen, the EFB replaces the large amount of paper crews now carry for flights, placing all required data in digital format at the pilot's fingertips.

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