Let me begin by saying... you haven't flown until you fly on an Asian airline. I took this airline to my destination and used Korean Air on the way back. Both airlines... they're so different than these non-sense airlines we deal with here in America.
Before I dive into this airline, I did want to note something that was a little annoying. The first 2 legs of my flight were through United. The 3rd and 4th legs were through Eva Air. Eva and United are part of the same alliance. At minimum, at least my bag was checked through to my final destination.
The annoyance... United issued all four boarding passes at my origin. Sounds good, right? For some reason, when I got to Houston for my 3rd and 4th legs... Eva insisted on issuing completely different boarding passes. I'm not entirely sure why they couldn't use the perfectly good passes from United(their alliance partner). Minor inconvenience but whatever.
As far as the airline goes though; The 3rd leg was a long one... 16 hours, 10 minutes to Taiwan. 4th leg... 2 hours from Taiwan to the Philippines. I can't begin to tell you how amazing this airline was. I do rank Korean Air a bit above just because the food was a bit better there. With that, the food was still amazing with Eva Air.
The first noticeable thing is how many flight attendants they have on each flight. They're running back and forth and ready to assist with anything you might need. Their outfits alone... I think they have 5 different outfits for a flight... one for each meal... one for sleepy time... one for snack time... and so on.
For the long leg, I was surprised that they supplied a pillow, blanket, eye mask, and headphones(for the in flight free entertainment). After my Montana trip, I always have my handy neck pillow when I fly but it was still nice to have the extras to begin this flight.
The food was good. I will admit some of it wasn't great to be eating at 4 AM but for the most part, it was much better than it had any right to be.
The movies, games, music, and TV they had available really made the 16 hours fly by. The seats should also be mentioned... I was able to sleep much better with Eva Air's seats when comparing it to other airlines I was on.
In the future, if I'm bouncing between Asian countries, Eva Air is definitely one of the airlines at the top of the list to consider. read more