Eva airline was founded in March 1989, by the chairman and founder of the airline Dr. Chang Yung-Fa. Within the first few months of the launch of the eva airways they placed an order with McDonell Douglas and Boeing Company for 26 aircrafts. The cost of this order was approximately US$3.6 billion. As this was an order of huge amount so it created a stir in the aviation industry, and from the beginning the company got the attention of global aviation market. Eva air has lofty goals when they started their services with first flight on 1 July, 1991.

Now, eva airlines are catering to more than 40 destinations around the world by catering to four continents that include Asia, New Zealand, Australia, North America and Europe. Along with these services, eva air has developed many alliances with major carriers in the whole world, with the help of this wide network eva airline is catering to far reaching destinations that benefit both cargo customers and passengers.

With the great culture of Evergreen Groups corporate section, eva air has also led their way with innovative team work, safe and punctual flights, efficient operations, friendly professional services and accepting new challenges. In the year of 1992, eva airline again led the aviation industry by introducing their remarkable Evergreen Deluxe Class, which was a concept of cabin service that was later adopted by many other world class carriers. This evergreen class of eva air has been upgraded and now they have named it as Elite class on board and a new fleet with B777-300ER is launched.

Again with the delivery of A330-200 in the year of 2003 and B777s in the year of 2005, eva airways led the industry by launching Premium Laurel Class, which is a new superb comfortable, unveiled Audio/video on Demand also called AVOD system, advance top class technology in all of their cabins in this class. Eva air uses the latest technology for the safety purposes of their flights with the help of equipments like Aircraft Condition Monitoring System (ACMS). There is another tool used by eva airlines for safety purposes which is Aircraft Communications Addressing & Reporting System also called ACARS. This is used to keep track of air craft operations, flight performance and engine conditions. The new Boeing 777s of eva airline are equipped with new electronic state of the art Flight Bag system which is established to help paperless cockpit and very high levels of security, safety and efficiency. Thus eva airline is one of the leading ones in the aviation industry of this time.