Etihad Airways, UAE's national airline, launches daily flights between Abu Dhabi and Amsterdam on May 15, 2013. Flights will be operated on a two-class Airbus A330-200 with a layout of 262 seats (22 in the Pearl Business class, 240 in the Coral Economy class). Etihad Airways’s daily flights will complement KLM’s flights between Amsterdam and Abu Dhabi, so flights between the two capitals will operate twice a day from May 15.
James Hogan, president and chief executive officer of Etihad Airways, and Peter Hartman, president and chief executive officer of KLM, unveiled details of the expansion of the code-sharing agreement between the two airlines.
James Hogan said: “We are very pleased that Amsterdam will become part of the Etihad Airways global route network and increase the number of our key European destinations to 17 (including Brussels, Dublin, Frankfurt, Geneva, London and Paris) from May 15. Flights between Amsterdam and Abu “Dhabi, which will now be performed twice a day, will become even more convenient for passengers traveling from the Netherlands to the UAE and further to destinations such as Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Australia.”
