EVA Air (BR, Taipei Taoyuan) has scheduled its final commercial B747-400 passenger service for Monday, August 21, 2017. In a statement, the carrier confirmed the route would be flight BR892 Hong Kong International-Taipei Taoyuan operated by its last remaining active B747-400, B-16411 (msn 29111).
Though the B747-400 is being withdrawn from passenger service, EVA Air will continue to operate the type for cargo flights. According to the ch-aviation aircraft database, it still has two B747-400(BDSF)s and three B747-400(FSCD)s in active service. They will, however, begin to be replaced when EVA Air takes delivery of two B777-Fs in 2018.
As it stands, China Airlines (CI, Taipei Taoyuan) is the only remaining operator of the passenger version of the B747-400 in Taiwan employing a fleet of six alongside eighteen B747-400(FSCD)s.
