EVA Air and Airbus held a delivery ceremony for the carrier's first A321-200 (registration number B-16201) in Hamburg recently. Airbus especially arranged a traditional German dancing performance in the event. EVA President K.W. Chang, Airbus Senior Vice President (Asia), Jean-Francois Laval, GE Aviation General Manager of Greater China and Mongolia, Weiming Xiang, (on behalf of CFM) and Aviation Capital Group Executive Vice President, Global Marketing, John Feren joined in the ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating the delivery. EVA will add a total of 12 (twelve) A321-200s to its fleet by 2014. After the delivery, EVA will ferry the passenger aircraft back to Taiwan. The carrier will initially deploy it on Taipei-Hong Kong and Taipei-Macau flights. Gradually, EVA will use its new A321-200s to replace MD90s and other old aircraft it currently operates on regional flights to destinations in Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia and China. With the advanced aviation systems and technologies of A321-200, EVA will provide more comfortable flights to regional passengers. With the delivery of this new A321-200, EVA's operating fleet reaches 58 aircraft. In addition to the agreement to add 12 Airbus 321-200s, EVA also signed a contract this May to introduce 7 Boeing 777-300ERs, to be delivered from 2014 through 2016. After all the new aircraft are delivered, EVA will operate more than 70 aircraft.(mar)