Etihad Airways has started flying its second Boeing 787-9 between Mumbai and Abu Dhabi. The B787-9 is configured with eight First Suites, 28 Business Studios, and 199 Economy Smart Seats, offering superior levels of comfort, entertainment and inflight connectivity.
Neerja Bhatia, Etihad Airways’General Manager for India, said: “Mumbai is the commercial capital of India and it is one of our key routes in the India Subcontinent.
“Operating our brand-new Boeing 787-9, we are able to carry business and leisure travellers into and out of Mumbai on board our three-class aircraft which has been customized with the world’s most innovative cabins.”
Etihad Airways added a third daily flight from Mumbai to Abu Dhabi and a new daily service from Kolkata to Abu Dhabi on Sunday, 15 February. In addition, a third daily flight will be added from New Delhi to Abu Dhabi on Friday 1 May.
These schedule expansions are complemented by the recently launched Jet Airways daily services from Goa and Lucknow to Abu Dhabi. Jet Airways flights from Ahmedabad, Pune and Mangalore to Abu Dhabi flights are also set to start on Sunday 29 March.
These increases mean that from May 2015, Etihad Airways and Jet Airways will offer a combined schedule of 224 weekly return flights from 15 destinations in India – more than any other individual carrier from the Gulf region.
The combined operation will include five flights a day from Mumbai, four flights a day from Delhi, three flights a day from Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kochi, two flights a day from Ahmedabad and Kozhikode, and daily flights from Jaipur, Kolkata, and Thiruvananthapuram.
