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...Corporate earnings: Taiwan’s Eva Airways publishes fourth-quarter results....
...British Airways and easyJet have been hit by hundreds of delayed or cancelled flights in recent weeks, while Manchester airport has warned it does not have enough staff, apologising for huge queues of passengers...
...British Airways, which launched its premium economy cabin in 2000, has long said the class is almost as profitable as its business offering on its long-haul flights....
...British Airways flies daily from Heathrow to Buenos Aires, from £720 return...
...The blue-chip aerospace company said Eva Airways of Taiwan planned to buy 24 of its 787-10 Dreamliner jets. Eva was also set to purchase two additional 777-300 extended-range jetliners, Boeing said....
...Tell No Tales, by Eva Dolan, Harvill Secker, RRP£12.99 Peterborough as a setting for edgy crime fiction?...
...Eva has decked out its planes in Hello Kitty livery. Cathay Pacific has chosen another path: focusing on premium business and tight cost control....
.... ——————————————- Details Mike Carter was a guest of the Taiwan Tourism Bureau, EVA Air and Transasia Airways. EVA flies daily from London to Taipei, from £678 return, and from 61 other cities....
...Several other carriers including Korea Air and Eva Air will also begin flights in October....
...Taiwanese airline stocks Eva Airways closed up 3.2 per cent, and China Airlines (of Taiwan, not to be confused with China Air) rose 2.9 per cent in Tuesday trading....
...made up of logistics companies such as the US’s UPS and FedEx, the cargo operations of passenger airlines such as Dubai’s Emirates and Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific, and cargo specialists such as Taiwan’s Eva...
...British Airways offered similar options....
...EVA Airways , the island’s second-largest airline, advanced 4.1 per cent to NT$19.15 while China Airlines , the largest, gained 4 per cent to NT$15.80....
...Eva Airways gained 8.9 per cent to T$10.20. Some Taiwan companies also benefited from the generally more optimistic view of the US economy....
...Reports that Taiwan would ask Beijing for further cross-Strait flights helped Eva Airways gain 6.7 per cent to T$10....
...Still, several legacy carriers have recently posted earnings that showed weakness in their cargo business, including Cathay Pacific, the Hong Kong airline, and EVA of Taiwan....
...China Airlines rallied 6.9 per cent to T$16.30, while Eva Airways rose 6.8 per cent to T$17.35....
...Tuesday’s worse-than-expected earnings from ANA and Korean Airlines followed record losses for EVA and China Airlines, the Taiwanese carriers, this week....
...EVA Air offers in-flight e-mail Passengers on some EVA Air flights can send and receive short messages....
...asks Nieh Kuo-wei, vice-president at Eva Airways....
...EVA Airways, China Airlines’ smaller, privately owned rival, has been in talks for almost a year to set up an air cargo joint venture with Shanghai airlines....
...China Airlines rose 1.1 per cent to T$17.90 and EVA Airways added 3.9 per cent to T$15.90....
...The country's number two carrier, EVA Airways gained 1.3 per cent....
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