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- Etihad Airways will return its Airbus A380 to New York JFK Airport in April 2024 for the first time in nearly four years.
- The company’s U.S. flights in summer 2024 have increased by more than a quarter compared to 2019, and there’s a good reason for that.
- Over the past year, 75% of JFK’s passengers traveled to and from South Asia.
Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways will be the 50th largest foreign airline serving the United States with flights scheduled for summer 2024. It is also the fourth largest Middle Eastern airline to fly to the country, after Qatar Airways, Emirates and El Al. Given that Etihad Airways will return Airbus A380s to New York JFK Airport next April, with returns to Boston Airport beginning the month before that, it’s worth considering the airline’s 2024 network.
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JFK Airport stands out, especially since both airports, which are 6,867 miles (11,051 km) long, have not seen an A380 since March 2020. Almost four years after the Big Apple last saw an A380, it will return on April 22nd.
Since Etihad Airways’ double-decker airliner began commercial operations in December 2014, Kirium This means JFK is the third most-flyed destination after London Heathrow and Sydney. Now, it’s back and Etihad Airways’ summer 2024 US network will look like this:
- Abu Dhabi-Boston: 4 times a week, 787-9
- Abu Dhabi-Chicago O’Hare: Daily, A350-1000
- Abu Dubai-JFK: 2x daily, A380
- Abu Dhabi-Washington Dulles: Everyday, 787-9
US flights +28% compared to 2019
Compare using Cirium May to September 2024 By 2019, Etihad Airways plans to fly between 25 and 32 flights per week to the US (twice the round trip). Equivalent to additional services per day.
This was when JFK was “just” on the air every day and Los Angeles was running (it ended in 2020). The number of flights was lower than usual due to major restructuring and rationalization across the network as the airline sought to resolve significant financial issues.
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Things are changing. JFK flights will return to his twice-daily flights in November 2022, and Boston flights will begin on his March 31, 2024 (Etihad Airways will return to his San Francisco flights in 2017 and Dallas Fort Worth in 2018). flight has ended). The return of the A380 to New York service seems an inevitable next step. Redevelopment.
Etihad Airways will begin flying Airbus A380s to New York’s JFK Airport from April next year
The increased capacity will add approximately 1,500 seats per week for the summer travel season.
JFK had twice as many A380s every day
From June 2017 to September 2018, two Etihad A380s operated daily at JFK Airport. Currently, the A380 departs the UAE on flight EY103 at 03:10 and arrives locally at 09:30. After 6 hours on the ground, EY102 departs at 15:30 and returns home at 12:30+1.
Interestingly, from January 2019 to March 2020, EY101/EY100 departed from Abu Dhabi in the morning and left JFK in the evening.
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Where do JFK Airport passengers go?
Looking at booking data for the 12 months to September 2023, it shows that we transported more than 170,000 transit passengers through Abu Dhabi, which equates to 466 passengers per day (seasonal (excluding gender).
We all know how important South Asian countries are to Middle Eastern airlines, but they are disproportionately important to Etihad Airways’ transport. Approximately three-quarters of JFK’s passengers travel to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, reflected in the top 10 departures and destinations.
- JFK-Ahmedabad (via Abu Dhabi)
- JFK-Mumbai
- JFK-Hyderabad
- JFK-Delhi
- JFK-Lahore
- JFK-Bangalore
- JFK-Chennai
- JFK-Dhaka
- JFK-Kochi
- JFK-Islamabad
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Source: Cirium, US DOT T-100, reservation data
