Etihad
Airways is to increase flights between Brisbane and Abu Dhabi from
three times a week to a daily service from 1 February 2013.
This
will bring to 28 the total number of flights Etihad Airways operates
between Australia and Abu Dhabi, together with partner airline Virgin
Australia.
The
additional four services will continue to operate via Singapore in
both directions and provide a new daily link between the city pairs.
James
Hogan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Etihad Airways, said
the increase in frequency was a game-changing move for the airline on
the Abu Dhabi-Singapore-Australia route.
“Going
daily to Brisbane and Singapore puts Etihad Airways in a stronger
competitive position and will increase the airline’s brand
footprint exponentially in these markets,” Mr. Hogan said. “Adding
an extra 1048 seats per week to the route underscores the strategic
importance of Singapore to our business and allows us to offer the
corporate and leisure travel market a more appealing proposition:
more flights, more convenience, improved connections and a wider
choice of destinations in Europe, the Middle East, Gulf Cooperation
Countries, and on the Virgin Australia domestic network.”
Etihad
Airways commenced thrice weekly flights to Brisbane in October 2007.
The Queensland capital was the airline’s second destination in
Australia and the 43rd in its global network. Flights to Singapore
commenced in September the same year.
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President and CEO of
Etihad Airways, James Hogan with Campell Newman, Premier of
Queensland, together with the Ambassador of Etihad Airways, Dannii
Minogue,
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