Coral Bleaching in Dampier Strait?

[cetacean]

Yep. Been there & done on EVA Air. The miracle flight leaving from Houston was 2 hours late & my bag was stuck in Taipei.

I called it a miracle flight is because there were so many passengers on wheel chairs going into the airplane, those passengers were miraculously able to walk out of the plane on their own at the exit.

My 3-hour layover in Taipei was down to 1 hour and I had to dash out of the 1st airplane to the next one. The flights leaving TPE-CGK operated once a day. So I had to wait for my luggage to catch up with me on the next day. Luckily I had an extra day as contingency plan.

Lesson learnt.

@Dan

"Miracle flight" - funny, but...

Going to Asia this time of year you will find a fairly large number of elderly people queue to board in wheelchairs (I experienced this most recently heading for Manila end of last month).

Having read a number of your posts in the past, I can't tell if you're poking fun at these people or suggesting they aren't really limited in mobility. In either case, I'm not sure it really matters - did they either prevent you from boarding or cause you issues leaving the plane?

Regardless, you likely saved some $$ flying on EVA through TPE. I've benefited from this same connection route numerous times before. Here's the issue - EVA is a decent airline (but significantly smaller than the other airline homed at TPE, China Airlines), however TPE itself looks nice, is clean, seems efficient, etc. however it's rated (Skytrax) as the 82nd best airport out of the top 100 (it's been in decline for the last 3 years). One of the areas called out: it needs to modernize it's baggage handling facilities.

I've experienced baggage delays in TPE on 2+ hour transit times. If I need my bags to make a somewhat tight connection I'm flying through HKG or Singapore... more costly, more reliable.

I really like EVA (and my kids liked flying on the Hello Kitty plane when they were younger). You can definitely stretch your $ flying EVA, but TPE can have issues.

Good you built in the time for your bags to catch up.