Etihad to triple number of seats on Delhi, Mumbai routes

New Delhi: Days after the Union Cabinet gave its nod for airlines from India and Abu Dhabi to increase the number of flights between them, Etihad Airways announced on Thursday that by November 1 it plans to more than triple the number of seats on the Abu-Dhabi-Delhi and Mumbai sectors.
In addition, by December 31, Etihad plans to use a wide body A-340-600 aircraft on one of the two daily flights to Mumbai and the wide-body A33-200 aircraft on one of the two daily flights to Delhi. The airline will also operate a larger aircraft on the daily flight to Chennai, which can seat 174 passengers instead of the 136-seater deployed at the moment, the statement adds.
In April this year, India and Abu Dhabi agreed to increase the number of seats that airlines can offer between the two states from the current 13,600 to 50,000. The increase in seats is to happen in a phased manner over the next three years.
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