EVA Air Brings Back Nonstop Taipei-Delhi Flights After a Six-Year Gap

On August 5, 2026, EVA Air announced it will fly nonstop between Taipei and New Delhi starting December 1, 2026, five times a week on an Airbus A330-300. It will be the only nonstop passenger service between Taiwan and India, filling a route that has sat empty since China Airlines suspended its own twice-weekly Delhi flights in early 2020.

Flight BR367 departs Taipei Taoyuan at 11:00 and lands in Delhi at 15:35; the return, BR368, leaves Delhi at 19:55 and lands back in Taipei at 04:20 the next morning. The aircraft carries two cabins, Royal Laurel Business and Economy, with no premium economy section.

Filling a gap the pandemic left behind

China Airlines was the last carrier to fly the route nonstop, operating it twice weekly with its own A330-300s until pandemic travel restrictions grounded the service in early 2020, Aviation Week reported. In the six years since, travelers between Taiwan and India have had to connect, and still overwhelmingly do: more than 98 percent of the roughly 158,500 passengers who flew between the two countries in 2025 routed through Bangkok, Hong Kong, or Singapore.

Why EVA Air is betting on Delhi now

EVA Air president Clay Sun said the route reflects deepening ties between the two economies. “The launch of nonstop Taipei-Delhi service represents an important milestone in EVA Air’s network development,” Sun said. “Growing connections across the manufacturing, semiconductor, artificial intelligence and technology industries continue to drive closer economic ties between Taiwan and India.”

That tie is concrete and recent. Tata Electronics and Taiwan’s Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp are building a 12-inch wafer fab in Gujarat, and the Taiwan-India Semiconductor Alliance, formed in 2024, has trained more than 10,000 Indian engineers at Taiwan’s Hsinchu Science Park. Major Taiwanese manufacturers already operating in India include Hon Hai (Foxconn), MediaTek, Delta Electronics, and Wistron.

Two economies with no embassies

India does not maintain formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan, a position tied to its recognition of Beijing’s one-China policy, so the two sides deal with each other through unofficial trade and cultural offices instead of embassies. That has not stopped commercial ties from growing, and it has not stopped the airlines from connecting the two markets through alliances instead.

Star Alliance partner Air India will feed the new route with onward domestic connections from Delhi. In the other direction, Taiwan’s visa-waiver transit program lets Indian travelers connect through Taipei toward North America without a separate visa, a routing EVA Air is positioning as an alternative to the Gulf and Southeast Asian hubs that currently carry most Taiwan-India traffic.

Whether the route holds depends on demand that has grown fast off a small base. Taiwan-India traffic rose 25.8 percent in 2025 to about 158,500 passengers, with Delhi accounting for roughly 42,000 of them, the largest single city pair in the market. EVA Air is wagering that semiconductor-driven business travel keeps that growth going, six years after the pandemic emptied the route its new schedule now serves alone.