Etihad Airways has established reciprocal interline partnerships with three new airline partners: Philippine Airlines (PAL), Austrian Airlines (OS), and Airlink South Africa (4Z), as well as re-establishing interline links with Biman Bangladesh and codeshare agreements with Air Seychelles (HM) and ITA Airways (AZ).
Customers of all participating airlines will benefit from enhanced connectivity to destinations across each other’s networks, the ability to book on a single ticket, and the ability to check in once at the start of their flight, with their baggage checked through to their final destination.
“Broadening our network reach and allowing more guests to visit Abu Dhabi has always guided our purpose,” said Arik De, Etihad’s Chief Revenue Officer. These six interline/code agreements make life easier for passengers on all participating airlines. This partnership with Austrian Airlines provides our guests with access to up to 58 European destinations via Vienna, operated by Etihad daily during the summer, and joins the other four Lufthansa Group members with whom we already have interline or codeshare agreements.
“Our partnership with Airlink South Africa provides connecting guests on our Johannesburg flight with seamless access to 16 domestic South African destinations and 25 regional African destinations, complementing our existing options with South African Airways.
And teaming up with Philippine Airlines provides easy access to 19 domestic Filipino destinations including Cebu, Cagayan de Oro, Davao and Kalibo, to and from Etihad’s double daily Manila service, for the large Filipino diaspora living in the UAE.
Our links with Biman and Air Seychelles were affected by those airlines’ own system migrations over the last 12 months, so we’re pleased to re-connect with them to complement our own Dhaka and Mahe services and offer further destinations, such as Chittagong and Praslin.
Etihad’s successful partnership with ITA Airways over Rome Fiumicino to Italy, Europe and beyond has also been restored following ITA’s own Amadeus Altea migration in February.”
