EVA Air's fleet looks set to undergo something of a transition in the coming years. Indeed, as Simple Flying reported in November, pent-up demand is causing it to consider retiring some of its older narrowbody aircraft, as well as a new widebody order. With this in mind, let's look at how its fleet is set up at the start of 2023.

Boeing widebodies

According to data from ch-aviation.com, EVA Air's present fleet consists of 88 aircraft. Twin-aisle designs from US manufacturing juggernaut Boeing play a key role, accounting for more than half of this figure (52 in total). The dominant force is the 777-300ER, with 34 examples present at an average age of 9.9 years old. EVA Air also operates eight examples of the cargo-carrying 777-200F model.

The carrier's other 10 Boeing narrowbodies come from the American planemaker's 787 'Dreamliner' family. The stretched-fuselage 787-10 model is just about in the majority, with six examples at an average age of just 2.6 years old (compared to a fleet-wide mean of 8.8 years). EVA Air has seven more 787-10s on order.

Slightly older than these (although still well below the average for the fleet as a whole) are EVA Air's four mid-sized Boeing 787-9s, with a mean figure in this regard of 4.1 years old. The airline also has more on order, with another four expected.

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Airbus widebodies

On the other side of the industry-dominating Airbus-Boeing duopoly, EVA Air also flies two different twin-aisle models from the multinational European manufacturing heavyweight. These both come from the popular A330 family.

The most numerous and youngest model is the larger A330-300. EVA Air has nine of these twinjets in its fleet, and their average age clocks in at eight years old. Eight of the nine are presently listed by ch-aviation as being active. Meanwhile, the final example (B-16333) is currently undergoing maintenance at EVA's Taipei hub.

The airline also has three considerably older and smaller Airbus A330-200s at its disposal. All of them are active at present, and they have an average age of 17.3 years old. Historically speaking, EVA Air has flown a further eight examples of the A330-200. But how does its fleet look when it comes to narrowbodies from Airbus?

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Airbus narrowbodies

While single-aisle aircraft aren't as numerous at EVA Air, they still have a certain role to play at the carrier. Just under a quarter of its fleet are Airbus A321-200s, with 21 examples present (of which 13 are active) at an average age of 8.1 years old. Historically speaking, another three A321-200s have served EVA Air.

Perhaps the airline's most interesting Airbus narrowbodies are those which come from the European manufacturer's Airbus Corporate Jets (ACJ) division. This part of its fleet consists of two ACJ318-100s and one ACJ319-100. According to ch-aviation, the two ACJ318s have VIP layouts comprising just 18 and 19 seats.

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Source: ch-aviation.com