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Etihad Airways will scrap flights to Tehran on Jan 24, the latest route to be dropped as the Abu Dhabi airline pursues a strategy review. The airline launched the review in 2016 that has also seen it sell or step away from
investments in foreign carriers.
Etihad’s five weekly flights to Iran’s capital will be reduced to two a week between Dec 25 and Jan 23, before it suspends the route entirely on Jan 24, an airline spokeswoman said. She declined to say why the route was being suspended, but said in a statement that affected passengers could switch to an alternative travel date between Dec 25 and Jan 23 or be refunded.
Since launching the strategy review, Etihad has said it would cut flights to San Francisco and Dallas-Fort Worth in the United States. Britain’s top defence buyer Tony Douglas will join Etihad next month as its new group chief executive, as the airline rethinks its rapid expansion strategy.