Etihad cancels direct flight from Abu Dhabi to Dallas

[msb314]

News is about a month old but I am hearing that Etihad have cancelled their non-stop flight between Abu Dhabi and Dallas. The last scheduled flight on this route will be on March 18th, 2018

Previously - it has been the 16th longest flight in the world.

Amidst news reports - Etihad is cancelling this flight due to American Airlines removing Etihad and Qatar Airways as a codeshare partner due to complaints against them for receiving high government subsidies that allows them to charge low fares on international flights.

I am personally disappointed to hear about this as I flew on this route last year and it was one of the best flights I have ever flown on!

Comment below!

http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2017/11/02/etihad-cancels-dallas-flight/

 

[LongHorn]

EK is better, in economy at least. Etihad's cost cutting has been more severe than EK's, and it shows, or at least did on my AUH-IAD flight in summer. Clearing immigration at AUH is amazing though...

 

[Pakistanian]

I flew this route and hated it, etihad is crappy compared to Emirates.

 

[LongHorn]

And Etihad had already cancelled the SFO route, partly because of reduced demand after Air India started the route
In some of these flights 70% of passengers seem to be Indians connecting ...

 

[msb314]

And Etihad had already cancelled the SFO route, partly because of reduced demand after Air India started the route
In some of these flights 70% of passengers seem to be Indians connecting ...

Not cancelled but I believe they have reduced the SFO route to only 3x per week.