The carrier has flown humanitarian charter flights to 32 offline destinations
Etihad Airways has operated its first ever flight to Havana, Cuba. The goodwill flight, chartered by the Government of the UAE, landed in the capital of the Caribbean island nation, carrying Cuban nationals returning home from the UAE.
Havana is the latest addition to an expanding list of special charter flights to destinations not normally served on the airline’s global route network.
Following the suspension of all normal passenger flights to and from the UAE on 24 March, Etihad has operated special humanitarian services to 32 cities around the world, all of which are not currently served by the airline’s passenger or cargo network of flights.
These include Bogota, Bucharest, Grozny, Kiev, Harare, Kinshasa, Moroni, N’Djamena, Niamey, and Nouakchott. The airline recently operated a special humanitarian flight carrying essential medical and humanitarian cargo bound for the Palestinian Territories.
“We have been able to move with agility and fly to territories never served by us prior to the current global lockdown, so we can aid in the repatriation of people,” said Ahmed Al Qubaisi, Etihad Aviation Group Senior Vice President Government, International and Communications.
