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Etihad Airways to bring USD6.2b to US economy by 2020

29 May 2015

(MENAFN) Etihad Airways is set to contribute in a total of USD6.2 billion, added to the economy of the United States over the five upcoming years, a corporate statement said, Gulf Times reported.

This year alone, the airliner will grant the US economy a total of about 23,400 employment opportunities, in addition to a sum of USD2.9 billion, a research by Oxford Economics showed.

Both the figures will nearly double by 2020 as Etihad increases operating expenditure and capital investment.

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