Etihad Airways expands Gulf Air partnership

Gulf Air and Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, have signed a strategic commercial cooperation agreement to deepen the partnership between the two.

The wide-ranging, subject to obtaining applicable governmental and regulatory approvals, sets out specific actions for deepening and broadening commercial cooperation.

It builds on a memorandum of understanding signed by the airlines in 2018.

The deal envisages a phased approach to closer collaboration between the partners.

In the first phase, by June, the scope of the partners’ codeshare agreement, first signed in 2019, will be significantly expanded.

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Gulf Air and Etihad will be able to offer up to an additional 30 combined destinations beyond the Bahrain and Abu Dhabi hubs, across the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Asia. 

The partners will work together to optimise joint operations on the Bahrain-Abu Dhabi route, with improvements to network connectivity over each of the partners’ hubs.

Additionally, the partners will work together to improve the customer

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From Breaking Travel News - February 18, 2021