EVA Air to fly Hello Kitty Boeing 777s from Houston

Taiwan's EVA  Air is the latest international carrier to announce new service to the Houston airport, saying it would begin flying its distinctive Hello Kitty-themed planes to Houston this summer. 

EVA's Houston service will be to its main base in Taipei. The airline will fly three weekly flights starting June 19 before increasing that to four weekly flights on July 1.

EVA says it will fly the route with brand new Boeing 777-300ER jets that are scheduled to be delivered to the airline in May. EVA says the 777-300ER it will use on the Houston route "will be specially painted nose-to-tail with Hello Kitty and Sanrio characters." EVA flies its distinctively painted planes on select routes. EVA has previously flown In the News: Hello Kitty planes to Los Angeles.

As for the 777 it will use to Houston, the 333-seat aircraft will have 39 seats in EVA's Royal Laurel Class business section, 56 in "Elite" premium economy and 238 in regular coach. The planes will be equipped with Wi-Fi and new in-flight entertainment systems. EVA's new 777s also will offer text-messaging and roaming service options that will allow fliers to send and receive short messages on their own mobile phones.

Houston Bush Intercontinental (IAH) will become EVA's seventh destination in the United States and Canada, joining Los Angeles, New York JFK, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver. The Houston flights also give EVA the opportunity to funnel connecting passengers to and from Star Alliance partner United, which operates its busiest hub at IAH.

For IAH, EVA joins a growing list of recent airlines that have added new international service at the Texas airport.

Just last week, Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways announced it would add flights from IAH to Tokyo Narita. Elsewhere, Korean Air and Scandinavian carrier SAS are among the major international carriers that have added new long-haul routes from the airport in 2014. Others, including Air China and Emirates, have beefed up capacity on existing IAH routes. In addition, United also new international routes to Munch and Santiago, Chile, while low-cost carrier Spirit announced a major expansion at IAH that includes several Latin American destinations.

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