Etihad Airways celebrates 15 years in India

Etihad Airways the national airline of the UAE along with Emirates. Etihad is preparing to celebrate 15 years in their busiest and largest business market which is India. Etihad launched daily flights from the UAE capital to Mumbai in September of 2004. Within in the first year of operation they announced, three months later a flight from Abu Dhabi to Delhi. Today, Etihad operates 159 return flights per week between Abu Dhabi and 10 key Indian cities. ​Bengaluru, Ahmadabad Chennai, Cochin, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram - and through its Abu Dhabi center point, the carrier interfaces every one of these passages to worldwide destinations all through the Middle East, Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Since propelling activities to the sub-mainland, Etihad has conveyed more than 16.5 million travelers on its Indian courses. Etihad Airways Group CEO Tony Douglas stated: India and the United Arab Emirates share a long and solid financial, social and discretionary relationship, and Etihad Airways associates these countries to one another, and past. We serve a larger number of goals in India than some other nation in our system, and associate India to the world by means of Abu Dhabi. All inclusive, we utilize in excess of 4,800 Indian nationals, just about 25 percent of our workforce. We contribute emphatically to the two economies, and a year ago went through US $151 million with 480 organizations in India. Our responsibility is huge, and will proceed to grow. Etihad's offering in the India market keeps on developing. The carrier is constantly expanding flights and including more up to date, bigger airplane, including its most recent expansion, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which serves urban areas including Mumbai, Delhi, and Hyderabad. Etihad Guest, the carrier's reliability program, as of late cooperated with SBI Card, one of India's biggest Mastercard suppliers, to offer a one of a kind travel-explicit Visa Mastercard to Indian voyagers. Furthermore, for visitors flying Etihad from India to the United States, the Customs and Border Protection office at Abu Dhabi Airport, empowers US migration, traditions and farming conventions to be finished in Abu Dhabi before flight. India is a significant vital source advertise for Etihad Cargo. Notwithstanding tummy space payload limit on the 159 week after week traveler flying machine between Abu Dhabi and India, Etihad Cargo work committed vessel flights to Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai. In the previous decade, Etihad has conveyed in excess of 560,000 tons of payload to and from India, from general load to key Indian fares including pieces of clothing, transient items, pharmaceuticals and hardware. Etihad likewise keeps on supporting India through a scope of corporate social duty activities, including its Global Education Project to give or raise assets to new training offices and supplies. The aircraft additionally runs workshops to create aptitudes and bolster the strengthening of ladies, and gives help to help after cataclysmic events, for example, floods in Kerala, where it gave new water, garments, covers, kitchen utensils and cleanliness packs to in excess of 1,000 individuals situated at an alleviation camp in the state. As a minority investor in and key accomplice of Jet Airways, Etihad had the option to improve worldwide availability with India, through Abu Dhabi. Indeed, even after Jet's flights were suspended recently, Etihad worked reliably and productively to help restore the Indian bearer, and keeps on investigating chances to team up with other neighborhood accomplices to help serve this quickly growing business sector.