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UAE’s Etihad Airways’ 2011 passenger traffic up 17%

16 Jan 2012

(MENAFN) Etihad Airways President and CEO, James Hogan, said that passenger traffic in 2011 jumped 17 percent over 2010 to 8.29 million passengers, reported Gulf News.

Hogan added that the increase in the number of passengers represented an additional 1.197 million passengers on the airline’s global network covering 82 passenger and cargo destinations.

On the other hand, he said that Etihad Crystal Cargo, the company’s cargo division, carried 310,000 tons of cargo in the period, representing an increase of 18 percent over the previous year.

It is worth noting that in 2011, Etihad Airways added 8 new routes to its network, including Bengaluru, Maldives, Seychelles, Chengdu, Duesseldorf, Tripoli, Shanghai and Nairobi, with Bangkok emerging as its busiest route.

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