EVA Air (BR), the largest privately owned Taiwanese airline, has stopped their former thrice-weekly 747-400ERF freighter flights into Frankfurt, Germany, citing “lack of demand” and “a better yield for Asia–US-bound flights.”
     With the withdrawal of the FRA-bound freighters, BR’s last main deck capacity into Europe is gone and the remaining uplift capacity of their 777 and 747 passenger versions out of Vienna (VIE), Amsterdam (SPL), and London (LHR) is but a fraction the former sizable uplift capacity of BR in the European cargo market.
     BR’s former European hub in BRU was closed years ago, and the FRA office shrunk down with the local staff about to be let go.
     About layoffs, sources told FlyingTypers some 10- to 20-year employees of BR in FRA that now have lost their jobs may sue for discrimination, as Taiwanese staff on the payroll for much shorter periods of time have been retained.
Jens