UAE’s Etihad Airways sees 32% surge...

Abu Dhabi airline will add 13 destinations in 2025, taking its total network to 110

Etihad Airways carried 18.5 million passengers in 2024, up from 14 million in 2023 – an increase of 32%.

The UAE’s national airline also saw a busy December, with 1.7 million guests – up more than 20% on the same period last year. This follows strong performance in November, when Etihad welcomed 1.6 million guests.

"December was our busiest month of the year, in the traditionally active holiday season, and we carried 1.7 million passengers, a 22% rise on the same month of 2023,” said Antonoaldo Neves, CEO of Etihad Airways.

“In the full year of 2024, we carried more than 18 million guests, with a very healthy passenger load factor of 87% across the year. More impressively, it represents an 80% increase in our total passenger numbers for 2022, underlining our strong growth trajectory over the past two years.”

Etihad’s fleet of modern aircraft grew from 83 in 2023 to 97 in 2024 while the total number of destinations served also rose from 67 to 71.

The airline launched a service to Nairobi just a few weeks ago, following the addition of Antalya, Bali, Boston, Jaipur, Kozhikode, Mykonos, Nice, Qassim and Thiruvananthapuram in 2024.

There will be 13 more destinations added in 2025, taking the total to 110. Those destinations include Warsaw and Prague (June), Al Alamein and Atlanta (July), Taipei (September), Medan, Phnom Penh, and Krabi (October), and Tunis, Chiang Mai, Hong Kong, Hanoi, and Algiers (November).

"In December, our network continued to grow as we resumed our service to Nairobi, Kenya, and we are looking forward to starting operations to the new destinations recently announced,” said Neves.

For more information, visit www.etihad.com

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