Etihad Boosts New York JFK Service From Mid-November

• Etihad Airways

  IATA/ICAO Code:

  EY/ETD

  Airline Sort:

  Full Service Provider

  Hub(s):

  Abu Dhabi Worldwide Airport

  12 months Based:

  2003

  CEO:

  Tony Douglas

  Nation:

  United Arab Emirates

Starting in November, Etihad Airways will add 4 extra weekly flights between Abu Dhabi and New York. These extra flights shall be flown on the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. This can convey the entire variety of weekly Etihad flights between New York and Abu Dhabi from seven to eleven. These added flights will present extra New York vacationers entry to Etihad’s 70 world locations. Passengers touring to New York can entry 46 locations throughout the Americas on Etihad’s codeshare companion JetBlue.

Increasing service

Etihad has introduced that on November fifteenth, will probably be including flights to its recurrently serviced Abu Dhabi (AUH) to New York (JFK) route. The airline presently flies as soon as a day to New York aboard an Airbus A350. Along with these seven weekly flights, the airline will start flying a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner 4 occasions every week alongside this route. Etihad will fly this flight on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays. The present flights will proceed to be flown on an A350.

The Airline shall be including these flights in response to the constructive demand it has seen alongside this route. Amid the latest rise in air journey, Etihad has considerably profited from this transoceanic service. The Vice President of Community Planning & Alliances, Alex Featherstone, acknowledged,

“Etihad is enhancing its schedule this winter to supply much more choices for our visitors throughout key enterprise and leisure locations in our world community.“Our New York service continues to carry out strongly, and having already skilled file passenger demand this summer time, Ethiad is happy to be investing additional on this market by constructing on frequency ranges forward of the height winter journey interval.”

The airline additionally providers Chicago O’Hare (ORD) and Washington D.C. Dulles (IAD). The extra flights will convey the entire variety of weekly Etihad flights between Abu Dhabi and the US to 25. Etihad shall be providing 50% extra premium seats this winter season to the US than it did in the course of the 2021 winter season.

Added providers

The extra flights will permit extra passengers to reap the benefits of Etihad’s large world community. These touring from New York to Abu Dhabi will have the ability to attain any of the airline’s 70 worldwide locations. Most of those connections are to locations throughout the Center East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. For these touring to New York, the airline’s codeshare companion JetBlue can provide service to over 46 locations throughout the Americas.

Passengers touring to the US will use the airline’s distinctive pre-clearance service. The airline gives a United States Customs and Border Safety facility the place passengers shall be screened earlier than boarding the aircraft. That is the one US Customs facility within the Center East. By going via customs in Abu Dhabi, passengers can keep away from the traces and lengthy waits to undergo customs as soon as within the US. Etihad hopes that the added flights and premium providers will assist meet the excessive journey demand it has been experiencing and retain clients for future flights.

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