Etihad bound for Tokyo

ETIHAD Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), who recently increased flights from Dublin to Adu Dhabi to ten a week, continues to expand with the announcement of new services from the Middle Eastern hub to Tokyo.

Etihad will operate five non-stop flights per week to Tokyo, in addition to its five flights per week to Nagoya. The flights will be operated by three-class Airbus A330-200 aircraft, and will feature in-flight services dedicated to the Japanese market, including a tailored menu, local entertainment content and cabin crew consisting of Japanese speakers and nationals.

That’s not to say European clients will be forgotten; an Etihad spokesman said the service would attract “a significant number of new Irish clients” on the current Dublin services, and beyond, on both economy- and business-class sectors