Articles tagged “etihad”

This is a timely launch in Indonesia where an improved economy boosted business travel by 54 percent during the first half of 2012.

India's troubled aviation industry is slowly opening up as govt. realizes the folly of not allowing foreign giants in, especially the geographically and culturally close Gulf giants. This will be the first salvo in a coming rush of such deals.

USA Today uses Qatar's delivery of its first Boeing Dreamliner today as an opportunity to review how the Gulf airlines established new industry standards despite being latecomers in the international skies.

There's nothing wrong with negotiating from a position of strength, but Lufthansa needs to make sure its insistence on getting its house in order first doesn't make it miss the bus -- err, plane -- on tying up Gulf alliances.

Although this brings Etihad one step closer to the Sky Team alliance, it also begs the question: What does a growing airline with 40 code-share agreements need from an alliance?

This comes as Qatar joining Oneworld is being announced tomorrow, continuing the changes European airspace hub, driven primarily by outside forces like the Gulf airlines.

The Emirates vs Etihad expansion rivalry is only good for consumers. And consumers are responding by using them more and more.

It has less to do with the which airline is based at the airport (Etihad in Abu Dhabi and Emirates in Dubai) and more to do with Abu Dhabi’s rapidly growing tourism industry.

Emirates' president offers the best Skift Take: “The international airline community needs to align itself to what is going on in the 21st century, not what was going on in the back end of the 20th century.”

Etihad's relationship with Virgin will allow it to continue it's attack on weakened legacy carriers around the world -- in this case Qantas.