Abu Dhabi based airline Etihad reached a huge total of 6 million passengers carried on its airline for 2007, up 34% on the previous year.
Etihad currently have 42 aircraft, and flew a record over 20,000 passengers in a single day on 19th December 2008.
The airline has launched six new routes in 2008 – Beijing, Minsk, Almaty, Kozhikode, Chennai and Moscow – as well as signing a record order of $43 billion for up to 205 Airbus and Boeing aircraft, including the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Chief executive James Hogan said: “Despite the impact of the global economic downturn, Etihad performed extremely well in 2008 and we hit our target of flying more than six million passengers during the year.
“Etihad now has a flight network of 50 global destinations, with an average seat factor of 75%, which is an impressive achievement in just five years of operations.”
