Karachi: Etihad Airways has announced the launch of flights to Lagos, the airline’s first destination in West Africa, from 1st July, 2012, subject to regulatory approvals.
These direct flights will link Abu Dhabi and Lagos six times a week and will be operated by a two class A330-200 aircraft with 22 Pearl Business class and 240 Coral Economy seats.
James Hogan, Etihad Airways President and Chief Executive Officer, said: “The launch of services to Lagos is consistent with our strategy of targeting areas of strong growth in emerging markets. The United Arab Emirates is a major trade partner of the Oil-Rich state of Nigeria, which has a population of more than 150 million people, the largest in Africa and the seventh biggest in the world.
The Lagos schedule will provide seamless connections over Abu Dhabi to key North and Southeast Asian destinations and markets in the Indian Subcontinent especially Pakistan. From Pakistan, Etihad operates 23 weekly flights to Abu Dhabi – with daily flights from Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad and twice weekly from Peshawar.
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