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Etihad Airways Overview

Etihad Airways is the national airline of the UAE. “Etihad” means “union” or “unity” in Arabic and is intended to represent the unity of the UAE’s seven emirates.

Based in Abu Dhabi, Etihad is owned by the Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Company (ADQ, and the Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Company, which also owns other aviation entities like Abu Dhabi Airports and Wizz Air Abu Dhabi.

Etihad is planning to invest $7 billion over the next five years and to double the size of its fleet by 2030 as it prepares to go public in an IPO.

Etihad has around 90 passenger aircraft and five Boeing 777 cargo freighters. It has ordered a further 95 – 12 were scheduled for 2024 and a further 23 in 2025.

Etihad flies to more than 80 destinations. New additions scheduled for 2025 are Algiers, Atlanta, Chiang Mai, El Alamein , Hanoi, Krabi, Phnom Penh, Prague, Taipei, Tunis and Warsaw.

In 2025 Etihad also plans to double its routes and frequencies to Africa and offer daily services to Dusseldorf and Copenhagen.

Etihad Airways News

Flydubai operates a fleet of 88 Boeing 737s but wants to expand into longer-haul routes with 787 aircraft

Boeing delays are hampering Flydubai expansion, says CEO

Delays in the delivery of Flydubai’s first wide-body aircraft from Boeing are hampering the carrier’s expansion into long-haul routes and it may seek compensation, its CEO has told AGBI. The low-cost carrier is waiting for 30 Boeing 787-9 twin-aisle planes, part of an $11 billion deal announced at the 2023 Dubai Airshow.  The first deliveries […]

Antonoaldo Neves, CEO of Etihad Airways, told Arabian Travel Market that US tariffs had not yet had an impact

‘I expect more Europeans to come’: Etihad chief shrugs off tariffs

Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways is not seeing any effects from the turmoil caused by US President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, its CEO Antonoaldo Neves told Reuters on Monday, while adding it was too early to fully gauge the impact of the levies. Trump’s announcement of sweeping tariffs on dozens of US trading partners this month […]

The cabin of a Comac C919, the Chinese aircraft manufacturer’s most high-profile plane

China ‘unlikely to overthrow Boeing-Airbus duopoly’

China’s state-owned planemaker, Comac (Commercial Aircraft Corp of China), is decades away from breaking up the global dominance of Boeing and Airbus, according to the head of the world’s largest airline trade association. The result will be that Gulf Arab carriers such as Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways have little choice but to stomach […]

A Zara store in London. Azadea operates Zara franchises in the Middle East and plans to focus on expansion

Dubai Holding-backed retailer Azadea puts IPO on hold

Azadea Group, which is backed by an investment company owned by Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has put its initial public offering on the back burner, it has been reported. Dubai Holding acquired a minority stake in the Beirut-based retailer in 2018, valued at $1 billion. The IPO pause is not down to […]

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Etihad passenger volume up as fleet and destinations rise

A growing fleet size and increased destinations have allowed Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways to expand passenger volume in the first quarter of 2025. Passenger numbers rose 16 percent to 5 million in the January to March period, compared to 4.3 million a year ago, according to data released by the state-backed airline. Antonoaldo Neves, CEO […]

Stock market volatility following President Trump's widespread tariffs is likely to delay the launch of IPOs in the Gulf

Global stock market dive likely to delay Gulf IPOs

Steep declines in stock markets since President Donald Trump set out sweeping tariffs will almost certainly delay initial public offerings in the Gulf, analysts have told AGBI. Markets around the world have tumbled since the US president announced his plans for import taxes last Wednesday. Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul All-Share Index had its biggest one-day fall […]

Leveraging market conditions for Gulf IPOs, the investment Corporation of Dubai is strategically positioned to realise value through the potential listing of its existing assets, including the prominent Dubai Duty Free

Dubai’s ICD could tap IPO market to fund expansion

The Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD), the principal investment arm of the emirate’s government, could potentially turn to the capital markets with a raft of listings over the next year or so, according to analysts. Established in 2006, ICD is worth about $340 billion and already has one of its crown jewels – Emirates NBD, […]

Passengers boarding a FlyDubai aircraft in Dubai. The airline's fleet is made up of narrow-body jets

Narrow-body aircraft to push growth of Middle East fleets

Gulf Arab airlines and other Middle East carriers will expand their fleets at almost double the rate of the global average over the next ten years, industry experts say. They will also increase the share of narrow-body planes over twin-aisle aircraft. Globally, fleet size is expected grow by 2.8 percent per year over the next […]

Kuwait Airways chairman Abdulmohsen Alfagaan said the airline is cutting costs but improving service

Kuwait Airways rules out profit for at least two years

State-owned Kuwait Airways does not expect to turn a profit for at least another two years as it struggles to recover from losses built up during the Covid 19 pandemic, its chairman said. Abdulmohsen Alfagaan told Kuwait’s daily Alseyassah that the airline is looking into what airplanes it needs and its network of destinations, anticipating […]