Etihad

Etihad Airways has long been a key element of Abu Dhabi’s strategy to promote inbound tourism to the emirate – the quieter, less well known, and some might say more boring neighbour to the glitz and glamour of neighbouring Dubai. …

Etihad’s chief commercial officer has told an aviation conference being held at the airline’s training college in Abu Dhabi today that the carrier does not now expect to start turning a profit until 2023.  Speaking at the Gulf Innovation Forum,…

Airlines will tell you that a plane not flying is a plane not making money – No wonder turnarounds seem to get tighter and tighter and schedules are maxed out.  But perhaps sometimes it’s just cheaper to ground a plane,…

For the first time in Etihad Airways’ 16-year history, the airline has updated its outdated cabin crew dress code and has started to allow female cabin choice the choice of wearing trousers.  The Abu Dhabi-based airline introduced its current uniform…

It’s well known that Etihad Airways is suffering financially – in 2016, the Abu Dhabi-based airline reported a staggering loss of $1.95 billion USD and the following year a further loss of $1.52 billion was recorded.  By 2018, a major…

By now, we all know that Etihad Airways is facing some pretty significant challenges.  While the Abu Dhabi-based airline has made some headway in reducing losses, it also has some way to go if it hopes to make a profit…

A former Etihad Airways pilot has spoken to The Australian about difficulties he had in securing psychological treatment from the airline after raising concerns about his own mental health.  The claims raise further concerns about how Persian Gulf airlines treat…

Etihad has just turned a dud of a special offer into a proposition that would actually make me seriously consider a stopover in Abu Dhabi.  Earlier this year, the Abu Dhabi-based airline launched a free stopover offer whereby the airline…

Skytrax is a British aviation consultancy firm which runs an unofficial but popular Star Rating service for airlines in much the same way that hotels have their own Star Ratings.  Up until now, there were just 11 airlines in the…

It’s no secret that Etihad Airways is facing some pretty serious financial problems.  Over the last two years, the Abu Dhabi-based airline has made a combined loss of nearly $3 billion, it’s been forced to cut routes, cancel aircraft orders,…

Airlines notoriously have strict grooming policies for cabin crew with some mandating the exact shades of makeup to be used and only allowing crew to wear their hair in approved styles.  These grooming policies normally put a lot more pressure…

Etihad Airways has just released its latest financial results and yet again the Abu Dhabi-based airline has run up a huge debt.  In 2018, Etihad made a loss of USD $1.28 billion on the back of $5.86 billion in revenues. …

Just like there have been rumours swirling for months that Emirates would cancel a good chunk of its existing Airbus A380 order (in turn spelling the end of the superjumbo), there has also been speculation that its fellow UAE-based neighbour…

In an unprecedented move, Etihad Airways has announced plans to make around 50 pilots redundant by the end of January.  The news was revealed in an internal memo that was leaked by insiders at the airline.  Etihad told staff it…

Former Barça player and current Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola has become the face of a brand new advertising campaign by club sponsor Etihad Airways.  The airline is positioning itself as the “airline of choices” and “personalisation” with a new…

The Head of Commercial at Etihad Airways, Jamal Al Awadhi has today told an audience at the APEX Middle East and Africa conference that the Abu Dhabi-based airline was too “exclusive” following extensive polling of what customers thought of the…

It’s less than a month until the Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix once again gets underway on Sunday 25th November, and as always Etihad Airways will be a title sponsor for what has become the largest event of its kind…

It’s no secret that Etihad Airways’ financial performance has been really bad (and we mean really bad) the last couple of years.  In June, the airline announced it had made a massive loss $1.52 billion USD last year – and…

It’s become all too easy to criticise Etihad Airways in the last couple of years.  A disastrous equity investment strategy has resulted in the Abu Dhabi-based airline posting huge losses which not even Etihad’s deep-pocketed owners in the oil-rich emirate…

In the last few weeks, Etihad Airways has posted a couple of videos on its social media platforms which look at the roles of its employees and their relationship with the airline.  The first video, which was titled Etihad Airways…

For an airline that plunged to a $1.95billion USD loss in 2016 and then went onto make further losses of $1.52billion last year, you’d expect Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways to just carry on cutting and cutting as much as possible…

Struggling Abu Dhabi-based airline, Etihad Airways has announced the latest step in its eagerly anticipated transformation plan – changing up its management structure and creating a succession plan for local Emirati talent to one day lead the airline.  The announcement…

Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways has finally posted its financial results for last year and it does not make for good reading.  And while Etihad is trying to put some positive spin on the figures, it’s difficult to see anything positive…

Hot on the heels of Etihad Airways announcing it would reduce the frequency of its daily flights to New York City by half, the airline has confirmed it will now be cutting it’s daily Dhaka service entirely – the only…

An aeroplane meal isn’t normally something to look especially forward to – except maybe the Champagne and Caviar saved for First Class passengers – but Etihad Airways is about to start preparing in-flight meals that could really benefit some of…