Taiwan has develop into a well-liked vacation spot for each enterprise and leisure vacationers, and, beginning Jan. 15, vacationers will be capable of fly nonstop to the island nation from Phoenix.
This spring, upscale Taiwanese provider Starlux Airways revealed it might start working nonstop flights 3 times weekly between Phoenix Sky Harbor Worldwide Airport (PHX) and Taiwan Taoyuan Worldwide Airport (TPE).
And now, these flights can be found to e book.
They’ll function Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, departing Taiwan at 8:45 p.m. and touchdown in Phoenix at 5:40 p.m., all instances native. The return flights will depart Phoenix at 10:45 p.m. and land in Taipei at 4:55 a.m., technically two days later.
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Starlux already operates direct flights to Taipei from Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Ontario, California. It will likely be the one airline working the direct route between Taipei and Phoenix. This new route additionally marks Phoenix’s first-ever nonstop path to Asia.
Flights will function on Airbus A350-900s, and they’ll clock in at 11 hours and 55 minutes eastbound and 15 hours and 10 minutes westbound. The planes function financial system, premium financial system, business-class and first-class cabins. When TPG’s Clint Henderson flew from LA to Taipei in Starlux’s enterprise class in 2024, he had nothing however rave evaluations of the airline’s meals and repair.
Costs for a one-way financial system ticket fall between $448 and $650, and premium financial system costs climb to greater than $1,000 every manner.
This direct route would not supply a lot business-class or first-class availability till {the summertime}. In July, a business-class seat prices round $4,000 one-way.
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In the meantime, a first-class seat is available in at greater than $10,000 one-way.
Fortunately, vacationers will be capable of skip the money prices and as an alternative pay for seats on this new Starlux route utilizing Alaska Airways Mileage Plan miles. There are not any good business-class redemption alternatives in the mean time, however Starlux’s direct-to-Taipei routes from different U.S. cities like Seattle are available at round 75,000 miles (plus taxes and costs) every manner by way of Alaska Airways. So, as soon as this Phoenix route will get up and working, there’ll seemingly be some stable charges.
We suggest setting an alert on Seats.aero or an analogous redemption-availability platform web site so that you may be notified when higher affords pop up.
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