Etihad Airways has revealed an preliminary six routes by the A350-1000, with the sort’s inaugural revenue-generating flight in three weeks.
Etihad’s A350-100s have 371 seats and would be the service’s highest-capacity sort after its B777-300ERs have gone.
It has been a very long time coming, however Etihad’s first business flights by the A350-1000 aren’t far-off. It will not deploy the A350 on lengthy routes at first. As a substitute, it’s going to give attention to closely demanded locations throughout South Asia, the Center East, and North Africa.
Six A350 routes to start out
The primary path to see Etihad’s A350s can be Paris CDG on March thirty first, nevertheless it’s solely a one-off. It will function EY37, leaving the UAE at 07:30 and arriving in France at 13:00 native time. Returning, EY38 will depart Paris on April 1st at 17:00, arriving residence at 01:30 on the 2nd. In March and April, EY37/EY38 primarily sees the B787-10, though the B787-9 and B777-300ER function too.
- Abu Dhabi to Paris CDG: a one-off service on March thirty first
- Abu Dhabi to Istanbul: 1x every day from April 1st
- Abu Dhabi to Mumbai: 9x weekly from April 1st (1x every day in mid-Could)
- Abu Dhabi to Jeddah: 6x weekly from April third (11x weekly in mid-Could)
- Abu Dhabi to Delhi: 1x every day from April thirtieth
- Abu Dhabi to Cairo: 5x weekly from Could 2nd
Relying on the day, Etihad can have 2x every day A350-1000 flights to Jeddah. Picture: through Etihad Airways’ web site.
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Etihad’s A350s: a abstract
The smallest of the Center East large three, Etihad has 5 A350-1000s, as proven under, with an extra 15 on order. In line with ch-aviation.com, they’ve 371 seats, Etihad’s highest-capacity plane after its B777-300ERs, which can be retired quickly. And so they have a for much longer vary than similar-capacity B787-10s, serving to to point future routes on which they’re going to be deployed.
- A6-XWA
- A6-XWB
- A6-XWC
- A6-XWD
- A6-XWE
Etihad’s A350s have 44 seats in enterprise (Collins Aerospace Tremendous Diamond), 45 in Financial system House, and 282 in financial system. There is no such thing as a top quality. Which means, after the B777-300ERs have gone, just one configuration of the B787-9 can have first, suggesting the way forward for first-class for the service is unsure.
Etihad’s preliminary A350-1000 community. Picture: GCMap.
Most arrived in 2019
Etihad took supply of 4 A350-1000s throughout the summer season of 2019, with its fifth (A6-XWE) arriving a yr later. The unused plane sat in storage in Bordeaux, France, for nearly two years earlier than Etihad lastly flew them to Abu Dhabi. Now they’re set to enter service.
In line with Flightradar24, the latest to fly was A6-XWE. On February twenty first, it undertook a circuit of Abu Dhabi as “Etihad 9101” that lasted 21 minutes. It follows related circuits by XWA (January 1st), XWB (November 18th), and XWC (January twelfth).
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