Etihad Airways enters alliance with six airways

Arik De, Etihad’s Chief Income Officer, mentioned: “Broadening our community attain, and permitting extra visitors to come back go to Abu Dhabi has all the time guided our function. These six interline/code agreements make life simpler for visitors of all of the airways concerned. With Austrian Airways, this tie-in provides our visitors entry as much as 58 European locations through Vienna, operated by Etihad every day through the summer season, and joins the opposite 4 members of the Lufthansa Group with whom we have already got interline or codeshare agreements.

“Our take care of Airlink South Africa provides connecting visitors through our Johannesburg flight seamless entry to 16 home locations in South Africa, and 25 regional African locations, and it enhances our current choices with South African Airways.

“And teaming up with Philippine Airways supplies quick access to 19 home Filipino locations together with Cebu, Cagayan de Oro, Davao and Kalibo, to and from Etihad’s double every day Manila service, for the massive Filipino diaspora dwelling within the UAE.

“Our hyperlinks with Biman and Air Seychelles have been affected by these airways’ personal system migrations during the last 12 months, so we’re happy to re-connect with them to enhance our personal Dhaka and Mahe companies and provide additional locations, resembling Chittagong and Praslin.

“Etihad’s profitable partnership with ITA Airways over Rome Fiumicino to Italy, Europe and past has additionally been restored following ITA’s personal Amadeus Altea migration in February.”