Etihad Airways will be introducing daily flights to Venice from 30 October 2016. The flight will be operated on an Airbus A319 offering 16 Business Class seats and 90 Economy Class seats. This is part of the airline’s expansion to Italy. Together with its codeshare and equity partner Alitalia, Etihad Airways will offer 35 weekly flights in and out of Italy, including double daily services to Rome and Milan.
EY79 will depart Abu Dhabi at 2.30am and arrive in Venice Marco Polo at 6.40am. The return flight EY80 will depart Venice at 10.55am and arrive in Abu Dhabi at 7.55pm the same day.
Kevin Knight, Etihad Airways’ Chief Strategy and Planning Officer, said: “Launching our service to Venice further supports a very popular passenger route between Italy, our Abu Dhabi hub and onwards throughout Etihad Airways’ growing network, as far afield as Australia. Together with our codeshare and equity partner Alitalia, we are also strengthening the significant trade relationship between Italy and the UAE.”
Alitalia operates the Venice – Abu Dhabi route today in code share with Eithad Airways. Alitalia has decided to redeploy its aircraft on its international network from the 2016 winter schedule and will codeshare on the new Etihad flight.
