ABU DHABI / WAM Etihad Airways will introduce Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner on its daily scheduled service from Abu Dhabi to Hong Kong, from March 31, 2019. The two-class aircraft will replace the Airbus A330-200 aircraft currently operating the route. The service will feature the airline’s next-generation business and economy cabins, configured with 299 seats — 28 business studios and 271 ...

MEXICO CITY / WAM UAE Ambassador to Mexico Ahmed Hatem Al-Menhali and the Mexican Minister of Communication and Transport Carlos Alfonso Moran have explored ways of reactivating ‘fifth freedom’ (the right or privilege, in respect of scheduled international air services, granted by one state to another state to put down and to take on, in the territory of the first ...

Bloomberg As the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) is set to start implementing its new six-month agreement to cut output, members responsible for most of the reductions have pledged to extend or even deepen it. Officials from Iraq, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) agreed with Saudi Arabia’s expectation that the group, along with Russia and other oil ...