Etihad Airways said it has enjoyed its busiest month ever with more than 616,000 passengers flying onboard the Abu Dhabi-based airline?s flights during July, a nine per cent increase on passenger numbers for July 2008.
p>Etihad Airways said it has enjoyed its busiest month ever with more than 616,000 passengers flying onboard the Abu Dhabi-based airline?s flights during July, a nine per cent increase on passenger numbers for July 2008.The highlight of the month was Friday 31 July when a record 21,640 passengers, with a load factor of 90.3 per cent, flew with Etihad making it the airline?s busiest day in its five year history.
The last week of July saw an average of more than 20,500 passengers fly aboard its planes each day. The month of July saw Etihad?s 900 weekly flights ? a 20 per cent increase on the number of weekly flights operated in July 2008 ? fly at an average of 88 per cent full across first, business and economy cabins.
James Hogan, Etihad Airways? chief executive, said: ?The record-breaking passenger numbers we have experienced in July demonstrate that, despite the current economic challenges, Etihad continues to attract high volumes of traffic across all three cabins on our global network of more than 50 destinations.
?Whilst we expected July to be busy we are delighted to have beaten our previous records, especially during the final week of the month when we carried more than 20,500 passengers each day. We now look forward to building upon this for the remainder of the summer holiday period and into the Holy Month of Ramadan.?
