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As of 2025, Etihad Airways has not suffered any fatal accidents during passenger operations. 15 November 2007 – A new A340-600, registration A6-EHG, due for delivery to Etihad Airways was damaged beyond repair during ground testing at Airbus' facilities at Toulouse Blagnac International Airport in France. During a pre-delivery engine test ...
Etihad Airways operates a fleet of both narrow-body and wide-body aircraft from six aircraft families Airbus A320 family, Airbus A320neo family, Airbus A350-1000, Airbus A380, Boeing 777 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner totaling 97 aircraft as of December 2024.
Etihad Airways was established as the national airline of the United Arab Emirates in July 2003 by Royal (Amiri) Decree issued by Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Services were launched with a ceremonial flight to Al Ain on 5 November 2003.
In 2003, Etihad Airways was founded via a royal decree by later UAE president Khalifa Al-Nahyan, and became the new airline to be based in the airport. The UAE government later ended its ownership of Gulf Air in 2005; previous Gulf Air CEO James Hogan was later appointed as Etihad's new CEO.
On 10 September 2006, he was appointed president and CEO of Etihad Airways, the UAE flag carrier based in Abu Dhabi.He oversaw Etihad's rapid growth to serving 86 passenger and cargo destinations in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Americas, operating a fleet of 120 aircraft.
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To that date the airline was the fifth in the UAE, and the first low-cost carrier in Abu Dhabi. The announcement was given during a period in which when Etihad posted a third consecutive year of losses and after pursuing a strategy of investing in failing airlines and after the government owned Etihad began a five year transformation plan in 2017.
Emirates (Arabic: طَيَران الإمارات DMG: Ṭayarān Al-Imārāt) is one of the two flag carriers of the United Arab Emirates (the other being Etihad Airways). Based in Garhoud, Dubai, the airline is a subsidiary of The Emirates Group, which is owned by the government of Dubai's Investment Corporation of Dubai. [3]