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Etihad Airways has increased the destinations
available for passengers travelling to Australia by expanding its
codeshare agreement with Qantas.
As part of the agreement, the Etihad two-letter
‘EY’ code is now on flights from Sydney to Ayers Rock
(Uluru), Alice Springs, Canberra, Hobart and Melbourne and flights
from Brisbane to Cairns.
James Hogan, Etihad Airways’ chief executive,
said, “The expansion of this codeshare agreement with Qantas
reaffirms our commitment to passengers around the world who are
flying to Australia and want to visit towns and cities outside the
key gateways.”
The new routes are in addition to the services
that were part of the initial codeshare agreement, which commenced
in March 2009 and include flights between Sydney and Brisbane,
Sydney and Cairns, Sydney and Adelaide, and Melbourne and
Adelaide, as well as Sydney to Auckland in New Zealand.
Aside from the codeshare expansion, Etihad
recently secured 14 additional weekly flight frequencies from its
Abu Dhabi home-base to Australia.
Within the new flight allocation, which is
available from March 2011, seven flights can be operated to any
gateway in Australia. This includes Etihad’s current destinations
of Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.
A further seven weekly flights were granted on
the condition that the operation also flies via or onto a regional
airport.
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