Etihad unveils ambitious targets
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Etihad Airways has announced ambitious growth targets for the coming years. The Abu Dhabi-based carrier’s Chief Executive, James Hogan, has announced that the airline plans to fly 25 million passengers a year by 2020, and double its number of destinations from 50 to 100.
The Centre of Asia Pacific Aviation reported Hogan making to comments in an address to the American media in New York, during his tour of North America.
In addition Hogan announced plans to increase Etihad’s workforce to 27,000 people by 2020, from its current 6,600, with most of the jobs based in Abu Dhabi.
“Etihad already a substantial business and we signalled our intentions for the future by making recently one of the largest ever commercial aircraft orders (at the Farnborough Air Show),” Hogan stated. “Our projections to 2020 reflect that order and the scale of our ambitions, closely aligned to the growth of Abu Dhabi as an economic and tourism powerhouse.”
Etihad recently released figures which showed that the carrier enjoyed its busiest summer period in its four year history, carrying a total of more than 1.6 million passengers during June, July and August. The summer period also saw Etihad flights operate at an average of 83% full, an increase of 46% on the same period in 2007.
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