Etihad
Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, is
celebrating a year of record-breaking success after achieving its
highest ever passenger and cargo volumes in 2013. Nearly 12 million
people flew with Etihad Airways last year, marking a significant
increase of nearly 16 per cent in comparison to 2012’s figure of 10.3
million. Bangkok was once again the airline’s busiest route, with a
total of 742,759 passengers flying to Thailand’s capital city in 2013, a
year-on-year increase of seven per cent. Manila was the second busiest
route (547,068 passengers), followed by London (544,564 passengers),
Jeddah (373,651 passengers) and Paris (338,969 passengers).
Etihad
Airways carried 73 per cent of the more than 16.4 million passengers
who travelled through Abu Dhabi airport in 2013. With the addition of
the airline’s equity alliance partners that operate flights into Abu
Dhabi, the combined total rises to 79 per cent of passenger traffic at
Abu Dhabi airport.
