Etihad Airways to Increase Frequency of Abu Dhabi-Karachi Flights to 28 Weekly

[Abbas Ali]

From October 1, Etihad Airways increasing frequency of flights between Abu Dhabi and Karachi to 28 weekly.

Presently, Etihad Airways operating 14 weekly flights between Abu Dhabi and Karachi with Airbus A320 family aircraft.

* Daily Abu Dhabi to Karachi flight EY294
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ey294

* Daily Abu Dhabi to Karachi flight EY296
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ey296

From October 1, Etihad Airways will add following flights with Airbus A320 family aircraft:

* Daily Abu Dhabi to Karachi flight EY292

* Daily Abu Dhabi to Karachi flight EY298

Abbas

[danyal77W]

Wasn’t the initial plan to increase to 17 weekly? A jump from 17 to 28 weekly is impressive!

[London Flyer]

CAA has to limit them to narrow body aircraft. 4x wide bodies per day will begin to feel like capacity dumping.

[danyal77W]

It will be operated by a320s for sure. If there is a demand, and if there is no other competitor on this route (no Pakistani airline), then the smartest player will get the whole cake.

What a shame for Pakistani airlines which cannot even operate between city routes that have significantly large Pakistani diaspora.

[HassanKhan]

Nice to see genuinely good frequencies. Frequent travelers have to do one day excursions to the GCC so this will help give some relief to them.

[Zulfiqar]

A320 family, meaning A320 or A321, however, sometimes they use their 789s as well.

[HassanKhan]

A320 family, meaning A320 or A321, however, sometimes they use their 789s as well.

Well they certainly won't be using 789s anymore! Etihad will most likely send their high density a322s which has a seating capacity of 158 people meaning 632 people can be serviced in a day, good numbers.