Etihad adds new destinations

Etihad expands and strengthens its network in summer timetable.

Etihad Airways will add services to four more destinations from its home base in Abu Dhabi and increase frequencies to certain destinations, but the plan to add a third daily flight to Bangkok is on the back burner.

Etihad will launch four weekly services to Istanbul, 1 June, followed by a new three weekly services to Athens.

On 14 June, it will debut new three weekly services to Cyprus’s Larnaca, and to Chicago, 2 September, beginning with three weekly services and increasing to daily, 1 October. Recently, the airline commenced daily services to Melbourne.

It will adds extra flights to Amman (10 to 14 flights a week), Beirut (from 11 to 14 a week), Doha (from three to four flights a day), Brussels(from four to six flights a week), Geneva (from four to five flights a week) , Milan (from three to five flights per week), Moscow (from five to seven flights a week) and Kuala Lumpur (from six flights a week to daily).

Etihad will operate 900 flights a week during this summer timetable, a 20% increase from 750 in the same period last year. It aims to carry 7 million passengers up from 6 millions last year.

In Thailand, the airline reported it will not introduce a third daily flight as earlier planned due to the ongoing political unrest in the country.