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First cabin version of the Boeing 777-300ER (77W) Three Class First version of Boeing 777-300 is the most common in Etihad Airways fleet. This airplane offers 330 seats of three classes: first, business and economy. First class may accommodate just 8 passengers.
- The Boeing 777 is an American wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.It is the world's largest twinjet and commonly referred to as the Triple Seven. The 777 was designed to bridge the gap between Boeing's 767 and 747, and to replace older DC-10s or L-1011s.Developed in consultation with eight major airlines, with a first.
- Etihad failed to impress on the Boeing 777-300ER. Photo: Paul Spijkers via Wikimedia Booking. I booked this flight through Alitalia.Out of Nairobi, on plenty of dates in late July, Alitalia offered one-way business class tickets to Los Angeles for around $1,000.
1. the wait for drink & food at the start of the flight for food & drink was quite long. We took off at about 8.30pm & around about 10.30 were eating a full meal. Because a number of us were from NZ, our bodies were crying out for sleep not food. Although earplugs, headphones & eye covers were available, the cabin lights were
not dimmed until after all the empty plates etc. were collected. At this point in the 14Hr. flight (total predicted journey time of 34 hr.s) I really started to wonder whether I would be able to cope. Fortunately I eventually managed to get a short nap & this lifted my spirits somewhat. In total I probably only slept 1.5 - 2 hr.s on this night flight!
I am quite tall & had tried hard to check in 23h 55 min.s (5 min.s after the earliest time at which the process become available) before the flight commenced. My experience with their website was very frustrating & in fact somewhat scary!! I selected a seat with extra legroom (which was supposed to be available, but when I tried to move to the next screen I receiver an error msg informing me that the seat was not available & to try again. After a number of repetitions I, in desperation, tried to select my original seat number & this was not available either!! I then clicked the back arrow to see what seat No, I now had, The field was blank! so it looked as if all I had achieved (by staying up pretty late to access the service) was to lose my seat allocation!! The website was giving me false information & my original seat allocation was not changed !! Why did I even try!!
One other thing;- There were 2 buttons on the side of the seat rest, initially it seemed that the rear 1 allowed me to recline the seat, with some difficulty. Later on in the flight, it would not budge, even though there was room behind it. Eventually I mentioned it to a crew member, they were successful in moving it. It seemed that the front button was the correct one. IT WOULD BE GOOD IF THIS information was provided in the literature freely available in the brochures in the front or maybe even announced at the end of the safety talk (until the written instructions become available)
United Arab Emirates (UAE) national carrier Etihad Airways is to boost capacity on its daily flights between Abu Dhabi and Melbourne, Australia later this year as it introduces a 328-seat Boeing 777-300ER on the route from December 1, 2013. Details of the aircraft switch were announced in Abu Dhabi this week by James Hogan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Etihad Airways, at a business dinner hosted by the Victorian Government and attended by 400 people.
The twin-engined Boeing 777-300ER will replace a smaller 292-seat Airbus A340, increasing its offering by 252 seats per week, a 12.3 per cent increase in capacity between the capital of the State of Victoria and the capital of the UAE. Since launching flights between Melbourne and Abu Dhabi in March 2009, Etihad Airways has carried over 580,000 passengers on the route, including 162,112 last year. Already this year, a load factor of 87 per cent has been achieved, one of the highest in the airline's network of 86 destinations.
'Melbourne is one of the best-performing routes in our global network, and has the highest passenger load factor of our three Australian destinations,' said Hogan. 'Our decision to increase capacity between Melbourne and Abu Dhabi reflects not only the growth we have achieved so far, but also our confidence in the Victorian market.'
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“Melbourne is one of the best-performing routes in our global network, and has the highest passenger load factor of our three Australian destinations.”
James HoganPresident and Chief Executive Officer, Etihad Airways
Etihad Airways' three-class Boeing 777-300ER will offer eight seats in Diamond First class, 40 in Pearl Business class and 280 in Coral Economy class. The airline currently operates 13 Boeing 777s and will add a further five this year, facilitating this increase in capacity to Melbourne.
According to Hogan, Victorians are not only flying with Etihad Airways to Abu Dhabi, an emerging business and leisure destination, but also “on to destinations in the Gulf region, Middle East, Europe and Africa.” In the table below we highlight the estimated final destination of passengers travelling on Etihad’s flight between Melbourne and Abu Dhabi.
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The analysis shows that point-to-point travellers from Melbourne to Abu Dhabi account for 8.1 per cent of the total with particularly large passenger flows into Europe: the largest markets being London Heathrow (19.6 per cent), Dublin (11.0 per cent) and Athens (9.8 per cent). Interestingly, Etihad Airways held a 10.5 per cent share of bi-directional passengers flying between Melbourne and Europe in 2011, ranking it fourth in this market behind Emirates Airline (21.3 per cent), Qantas (17.2 per cent) and Qatar Airways (10.6 per cent).
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FINAL DESTINATION FOR PASSENGERS TRAVELLING ON ETIHAD AIRWAYS’ FLIGHT FROM MELBOURNE TO ABU DHABI (one-way passengers; 2011) | |||
Rank | Destination | Estimated Passengers | % Total Passengers |
1 | London Heathrow (LHR) | 13,388 | 19.6 % |
2 | Dublin (DUB) | 7,528 | 11.0 % |
3 | Athens International (ATH) | 6,704 | 9.8 % |
4 | Abu Dhabi International (AUH) | 5,541 | 8.1 % |
5 | Beirut Rafic Hariri International (BEY) | 4,299 | 6.3 % |
6 | Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) | 3,688 | 5.4 % |
7 | Manchester (MAN) | 3,358 | 4.9 % |
8 | Istanbul Ataturk (IST) | 2,314 | 3.4 % |
9 | Cairo International (CAI) | 1,967 | 2.9 % |
10 | Larnaca (LCA) | 1,583 | 2.3 % |