Star Alliance has not yet officially announced the joining date of the EVA Air to the alliance, but EVA’s inflight magazine for June has it for 18th of this month. EVA Air and Star Alliance signed an agreement on 2012 that the airline would join the alliance on 2nd quarter of 2013.
This would mean that starting on 18th of June the Star Alliance wide Silver and Gold benefits would apply on EVA flights as well and EVA’s frequent fliers would receive the same benefits on other Star Alliance airlines.
It might take few days after joining the alliance before all websites are updated with the info about the mileage and EQM earning fare classes on EVA.
Also, theoretically the EVA award availability should be alliance wide on the 18th, but it might take few days for the other airlines to update their award booking systems to reflect this change.
Conclusion
On June 18th, we will likely see photos of the Star Alliance airline CEO’s meeting in Taipei and portraits of the all Star Alliance carrier flight attendants with backdrops of EVA planes.
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I’m flying EVA on 6/21 YYZ-TPE, and seriously hoping for some official confirmation of Star Alliance benefits at least, as I’m Star Gold via A3.
Then official miles accumulation, then lastly the award availability
You’d think they’ll have it posted already with 15 days away
since they shared about the 6/18 joining date early in April
Fingers crossed!!
Airlines tend to try maximize the publicity of these alliance additions and only announce them the day before + all the photos etc.
You should be good unless there are last minute glitches.
I can’t wait to see availability on BNE-TPE, then on to the USA!
You should already be able to access EVA’s award inventory via United. They have been non-alliance partner already for a while.
Flying Business HKG to SEA on evening of June 18th. Hoping for EQM on United….what do you think?
You certainly should receive unless there is last minute change in joining date that I find highly unlikely.
Finally I can Fly from MFM with a *A partner!
At least Thai Smile has been serving Macau. Not sure about the other Star airlines.
Oh yes, I almost forgot about them. I always go to HKG to fly to North America instead of taking Thai Smile to BKK to North America.
If I book now on Eva Air, before June 18th and fly July 4th, will that still give me United EQM and the ability to fly Star Gold (using the lounge, etc.)?
As long as the fare class you have booked is eligible for the EQM/RDM in UA’s program. We don’t know these before UA makes them available online.
You will get the Star Alliance Gold benefits.