Thrice-weekly continuous flights between Phoenix and Taipei are set to take off, with China Airways starting the service from December 3. A latest delegation from the provider visited Arizona on September 18, celebrating the information with the native mayor. This information, for town of Phoenix, comes as Starlux additionally plans its personal companies to town.
Taiwanese provider, China Airways, will not be new to Phoenix, having already operated a number of profitable constitution companies to town, which not solely enabled robust inbound tourism, but in addition let the airline acquire expertise in each passenger and cargo operations to the state.
China Airways Non-Cease To Phoenix
China Airways had already introduced again in July its intentions to start direct companies between Taipei Taoyuan Worldwide Airport (TPE) and 
Phoenix Sky Harbor Worldwide Airport (PHX). These companies, which have been to be direct on the outbound, have been to incur one cease on the return, touching down at Los Angeles Worldwide Airport (LAX) for 2 hours and half-hour, including further time to the general flight length.
The most recent information, the place China Airways will get rid of the Los Angeles layover, is undoubtedly going to enchantment higher for the worldwide traveler, and can complement the opposite direct companies the airline already operates to North America, together with New York, Los Angeles, Ontario, San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver.
As soon as the Phoenix service takes off, it can equate to a complete of 40 continuous journeys to North America for the airline, solidifying the provider as a significant operator between Taiwan and the continent. The one different operators that serve Taiwan (Taipei) from North America are EVA Air (Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York JFK, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver), Starlux (Los Angeles, Ontario, San Francisco, Seattle, and Phoenix (the latter from January 15), and United Airways (San Francisco, a further service does function to the Micronesian unincorporated territory of america, Guam Worldwide Airport).
The Flight Particulars
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The up to date continuous service will depart from Taipei thrice per week on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday for the outbound journey. Working as CI036, the flight will push again at 16:30 for the continuous journey to Phoenix, Arizona, with a block time as famous on the airline’s web site as 12 hours, 5 minutes, eastbound, touching down the identical day at 13:35.
For the return journey, working as CI035, this flight will depart from Phoenix on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday, for the 15-hour, 20-minute journey west. With a scheduled push-back time of 16:00, this flight will journey in a single day, crossing the worldwide date line, to reach at 22:20 the subsequent day. Operated by the airline Airbus A350-900, the airline has two configurations, with a most capability of 306 passengers onboard. Additional fleet particulars under as per ch-aviation:
Airbus A350-900
Enterprise Class Seats
Premium Economic system Class Seats
Economic system Class Seats
Whole Capability
Configuration One
32
31
243
306
Configuration Two
40
32
228
300
China Airways has 15 of the A350-900 at the moment in service, with one other 5 awaiting supply. The airline at the moment has one in all these planes on lease from SAS, which carries the 
SAS cabin configuration. There are additionally plans to retrofit the cabins with new upgraded onboard facilities, that are anticipated from 2027.
A Assembly With The Mayor
Credit score: China Airways
President of China Airways, Kevin Chen, together with a delegation from the provider, visited Phoenix this week and met with town’s mayor, Kate Gellago. This go to was to rejoice the announcement of the airline’s resolution to get rid of the Los Angeles stopover, as a substitute planning to function nonstop.
So far as worldwide carriers working Asia-bound companies at PHX, China Airways will turn into the primary this December, adopted intently by Starlux the month following. These two Taiwanese carriers will stay the one worldwide airways flying to Asia, and each supply a rising vary of easy one-stop itineraries to the broader Asian continent.
As a part of the celebration for the Phoenix service, China Airways can even be launching an immersive, desert-themed occasion at ATT 4 FUN, situated in Taipei’s Xinyi District, which is able to embody dancers, balloons, and singing performances. As a part of this occasion, there can even be a lottery draw, which is able to embody the grand prize of Premium Enterprise Class seats to Phoenix.
