Etihad Airways taking measures to deal with virus outbreak, chief executive says – The National

Etihad Airways taking measures to deal with virus outbreak, chief executive says – The National

Etihad Airways taking measures to deal with virus outbreak, chief executive says. "I can honestly say I've have not got up one morning in the last two or three weeks without the the goalposts not fundamentally changing again," Mr Douglas said. ". Etihad, much like the rest of the industry, is seeing a drop in its international bookings in March and expects the trend to continue in April and May, Mr Douglas said.. "By March, we and the rest of the industry, are in negative sales as the cost of theoretical cancellations was greater than the cost of sales.". Etihad, which is in the midst of a five-year turnaround plan to narrow annual losses, is currently in better shape to deal with the crisis after transforming into a medium-sized operator, Mr Douglas said.. The airline is currently operating only 44 per cent of its routes and responding to the hit in global travel demand on affected routes through various measures: switching from an Airbus A380 to the smaller Boeing 787 Dreamliner or switching to a smaller variant of the Dreamliner or reducing the flight frequency as it revises its network daily - sometimes up to eight times a day, Mr