Tony Douglas

Riyadh Air, Saudi Arabia’s new digitally native airline is fully committed to sustainable aviation practices and today launched the first in a fleet of electric coaches for employee transport.

Riyadh Air and Singapore Airlines (SIA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a new partnership between the two airlines.

Etihad Airways has launched its first-ever scheduled flights linking Abu Dhabi and Guangzhou. The inaugural flight, EY868, departed Abu Dhabi on 10th October.

Royal Jordanian hosted the ninety-second Executive Committee meeting of the Arab Air Carriers’ Organization (AACO) in Amman

Saudia Arabia’s new global airlines RIA is looking to poach the serving chief executive of Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways, Tony Douglas.

Etihad Airways has launched the Etihad Mangrove Forest to provide guests, corporate accounts and partners the option to adopt mangroves in Abu Dhabi to reduce their carbon footprint

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, launched its regular flight service between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv, Israel

Abu Dhabi’s national carrier Etihad has reported core operating losses of USD 1.7 billion in 2020, reflecting the severe toll of the coronavirus pandemic on the airline

Tony Douglas, group chief executive officer of Etihad Aviation Group, received his first dose of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine at Etihad Airways Medical Centre

Etihad Airways has launched ‘Etihad Wellness’, an expanded health and hygiene programme and customer guide. The move builds on the stringent measures already put in place by the airline to deal with Covid-19. The programme will be championed by the introduction of specially trained wellness ambassadors, who will seek to provide essential travel health information […]

Etihad Airways has announced an encouraging 32% improvement in core operating performance for 2019, on revenues of USD 5.6 billion (USD 5.9 billion in 2018). Losses were significantly reduced to USD 870 million (USD 1.28 billion in 2018). This result is better than the carrier’s internal plan for 2019. Its transformation programme has seen cumulative […]

Etihad Airways marked Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2020 by operating a special ‘eco-flight’ from Abu Dhabi to Brussels, featuring a range of initiatives designed to illustrate the airline’s broad commitment to sustainable practices in the air and on the ground. Flight EY 57 departed on 13 January using a Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, the newest […]

Etihad Aviation Group, owner of the national airline of the UAE and Air Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa’s first and largest low-cost carrier, have announced the signing of an agreement to launch Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, the capital’s first low-cost carrier. Etihad and Air Arabia will establish an independent joint venture company that […]

The UAE national carrier Etihad Airways is celebrating 15 years of its operations in Germany. The airline, which launched its debut Munich flight in 2004, now operates five times a day between its hub Abu Dhabi and Germany. This comes as the UAE and Germany intensify bilateral co-operation following the visit of HH Sheikh Mohamed […]

Etihad Airways today flew the world’s first commercial flight using locally produced sustainable fuel on a Boeing 787 powered by GE’s GEnx-1B engines.

Etihad Airways said “hola” to Barcelona for the very first time this morning, when the carrier launched the virgin flight of its new service from Abu Dhabi to the capital of Spain’s Catalan region.