Starting September 2, 2009, Etihad Airways will fly non-stop from Abu Dhabi to Chicago, offering excellent connections via Abu Dhabi to and from destinations in the Indian Subcontinent, the Gulf, Middle East, Africa and Australia. The service will initially operate three times a week and will go up to daily in October 2009.
Starting June 2, 2009, Etihad Airways will fly non-stop from Abu Dhabi to Athens — the first and only direct service between the UAE capital and the capital of Greece. The service will initially operate three times a week and will go up to 5 times a week in October 2009 and daily from the beginning of 2010.
Etihad will operate daily flights between Abu Dhabi and Melbourne from March 29, 2009. Melbourne is our third destination in Australia and complements our existing 11-flights-a-week service to Sydney and three-flights-a-week service to Brisbane.
This June, Etihad is going to boost their flying programme to Europe with the launch of flights to Istanbul in Turkey. Starting June 1, Etihad Airways will offer four flights a week between Abu Dhabi and Istanbul, before increasing the frequency to five flights a week from October.

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