EVA Airways is being a busy little kitty… I mean airline and are preparing more Hello Kitty routes to take to the air.
From 23rd May, EVA will operate the following routes:
- Taipei Songshan-Tokyo Haneda (HND) Flights BR192/BR191
- Taipei Songshan-Shanghai Hongqiao Flights BR 190/BR191
In addition to the new routes, newly painted Hello Kitty Jets will be released! Aren’t you overcome with cuteness?
The Kawaii Kitty will operate from both Taipei airports with the two services as above starting up soon, and services from Taipei Taoyuan airports operating to:
- Tokyo Nartia
- Hokkaido
- Guam
- Seoul Incheon
- Hong Kong
In less cute news and sans Hello Kitty, the EVA Airways Taipei to New York JFK service will also be increasing from 4 times a week to 5 times operating in normal EVA Airways livery – well, I’m not sure about you but 12 hours non stop staring at Kitty-chan would want me to do things to Kitty-chan that I couldn’t describe in this blog.
Hello Kitty has all her news at http://evakitty.evaair.com/ch/. For those of you who’s Chinese reading skills are nil, Google Translate helps. Or not…
Whilst this is all well and good, this post is missing a picture. So here’s Kitty at the Gift Gate shop in Japan…
How come Hello Kitty (airplanes) never lands here in the west coast of the US? And I also forgot one of the Asian airlines had painting of tropical fruits, which is a pretty brilliant approach.
EVA seem to be reserving their “Painted” planes for Asian Markets (and Guam). With the A330’s they have, I suspect range of the aircraft could be an issue (but unlikely), but more like how many people they can cram aboard an aircraft and the costs of putting a 777-300ER in the air vs an 330-300 in the air with passenger count.
Alternatively, someone can start a campaign to get a Hello Kitty 777-300ER plane….. 😉
For the A330-300, it really is a problem of range. The type’s commercially-efficient range is about 5500 miles, which means they can’t fly TPE-West Coast USA nonstop (TPE-SEA is just under 6100 miles, TPE-SFO about 6500 and TPE-LAX nearly 6800). The A330-200 can fly such missions, but the -300 is optimised for payload, not range.