Etihad Airways broadens in India; Kolkata-Abu Dhabi service to start in 2023 – Business Standard

Etihad Airways prepares to broaden its flight network in India with extra services to Ahmedabad, Chennai, Cochin and Delhi beginning with early next year. The Gulf provider on Thursday likewise revealed strategies to introduce an everyday flight service to Kolkata from Abu Dhabi from March 26, 2023 offering an overall of 7 weekly non-stop services to the City of Joy. The flights will be run with an Airbus A320 airplane, providing 8 seats in company class and 150 in economy class, according to a release. “In parallel with re-establishing air links to Kolkata, Etihad will increase its network with extra services to Ahmedabad (bringing it approximately 2 everyday flights) and Chennai (two times daily),” an Etihad Airways representative informed PTI. Cochin will have an extra 6 flights per week, bringing it to an overall of 13 flights per week, beginning from March 26,2023 An extra day-to-day service will likewise be begun to Delhi and Mumbai from April 24 next year. The re-introduction of flights to Kolkata and the frequency increases on other paths will substantially grow Etihad’s footprint in India, from 77 weekly flights to 118 weekly flights, the representative stated. “Our go back to Kolkata will likewise come at the very same time as we go double day-to-day to New York, supplying much better gain access to in between India and the United States through AbuDhabi where our visitors can benefit from our United States pre-clearance center for a smooth arrival into the states,” Martin Drew, Senior Vice President for Global Sales & Cargo at Etihad Airways, stated in the release. (Only the heading and photo of this report might have been revamped by the Business Standard personnel; the remainder of the material is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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