Etihad Airlines? Anyone used them to fly from Australia to the UK??

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Dec 30th 2007, 6:00 pm

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Re: Etihad Airlines? Anyone used them to fly from Australia to the UK??

Yes Graham and Maria.

they weren't too happy with that one.
that incident happened while airbus were testing it, it was the day before delivery.

Scratch one A340 before its taken a single passenger

Dec 31st 2007, 1:14 am

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Re: Etihad Airlines? Anyone used them to fly from Australia to the UK??

Quote:

Originally Posted by Graham and Maria

The catch:

Dec 31st 2007, 1:53 am

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Re: Etihad Airlines? Anyone used them to fly from Australia to the UK??

Someone used them a while back and there have been a couple of threads about them (went slightly off topic

but I think they came out well.

Dec 31st 2007, 2:13 am

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Re: Etihad Airlines? Anyone used them to fly from Australia to the UK??

Are they much cheaper in comparison to the others?

Dec 31st 2007, 3:10 am

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Re: Etihad Airlines? Anyone used them to fly from Australia to the UK??

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Originally Posted by Tiawamutu

Are they much cheaper in comparison to the others?

Not since that trial...

Dec 31st 2007, 4:12 am

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Re: Etihad Airlines? Anyone used them to fly from Australia to the UK??

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Originally Posted by Graham and Maria

The catch:

It is a funny picture. It is actually a plane Airbus had been running final tests on before final delivery. It wasn't under control of Etihad at that point. Big egg on the face of Airbus.

Dec 31st 2007, 4:14 am

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It is a funny picture. It is actually a plane Airbus had been running final tests on before final delivery. It wasn't under control of Etihad at that point. Big egg on the face of Airbus.

I've read alot of dodgy things about Airbuses and some of them on this site through people in the know, so I am going to try to steer clear of them if at all possible.

Dec 31st 2007, 4:38 am

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Re: Etihad Airlines? Anyone used them to fly from Australia to the UK??

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Originally Posted by St.Georges Girl

I've read alot of dodgy things about Airbuses and some of them on this site through people in the know, so I am going to try to steer clear of them if at all possible.

To be honest there is no real difference with Airbus and Boeing in terms of performance, each have skeletons in the cupboard that they wish not to be made public.

Dec 31st 2007, 4:50 am

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Re: Etihad Airlines? Anyone used them to fly from Australia to the UK??

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Originally Posted by St.Georges Girl

I've read alot of dodgy things about Airbuses and some of them on this site through people in the know, so I am going to try to steer clear of them if at all possible.

I think if Airbuses were that dodgy there'd be a lot of airlines in trouble! Their performance is as good as Boeing.

Dec 31st 2007, 5:34 am

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Re: Etihad Airlines? Anyone used them to fly from Australia to the UK??

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Originally Posted by Paidtoplease

To be honest there is no real difference with Airbus and Boeing in terms of performance, each have skeletons in the cupboard that they wish not to be made public.

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Originally Posted by Pollyana

I think if Airbuses were that dodgy there'd be a lot of airlines in trouble! Their performance is as good as Boeing.

Well I'm only going by what someone in the RAAF told us and by what a couple of people who work on them have said, I wouldn't know the first thing about them other than they fly.

Dec 31st 2007, 7:39 am

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Re: Etihad Airlines? Anyone used them to fly from Australia to the UK??

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Originally Posted by GaryVFR8

Emirates are losing the plot with there service being nowhere near as good as when I first flew with them in 2002. The staff used to be superb, Not they are getting like BA and QANTAS, My last flight I was in buisness class and the service they gave me would not of been acceptable in Economy!!!
I really used to rate them!!!!
Very angry Gary

My wife flew to London with Emirates on Saturday and she says they were good although the plane was full - not one spare seat. It took over an hour to check in though - looked like they were short-staffed.

Top tip - do online check-in if you can. The queue for that was short.

Dec 31st 2007, 7:42 am

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Re: Etihad Airlines? Anyone used them to fly from Australia to the UK??

we flew out on the 8th dec and they were very good for what they cost and we were very happy with them. 8/10 is what we would scoe them.

Dec 31st 2007, 7:50 am

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Re: Etihad Airlines? Anyone used them to fly from Australia to the UK??

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we flew out on the 8th dec and they were very good for what they cost and we were very happy with them. 8/10 is what we would scoe them.

Would you mind tellling how much you paid and what the change over wait time was?

Dec 31st 2007, 8:10 am

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Re: Etihad Airlines? Anyone used them to fly from Australia to the UK??

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Originally Posted by GaryVFR8

Ethihad are based in middle east, I'm sure its Doha.
I did not complains but got handed a form to see how my experiance was, I said in the form about it not being good don't expect anything back from them they don't care now.
Gary

Ethihad are based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and is the national airline. Never used them but have had good reports from friends who have. as you say - they are relatively new to the business so are pulling out all the stops to win peole over.