Etihad wins development excellence Award

Etihad Airways has won the award for “Fastest Growing Airline to the Middle East” at the 2013 Athens International Airport (AIA) Airline Marketing Workshop.

This is the second consecutive year the UAE flag carrier has earned top honours at the event.

The award recognises Etihad Airways’ rapid and successful development over the past twelve months, coupled with delivering the highest quality of service between Greece, the Middle East and beyond.

More than 150 travel managers, human resource directors, facility managers, and travel buyers of medium and large companies involved in the Greek travel management field voted for the award, which was presented at a gala event held at AIA’s Athens headquarters.

Etihad Airways General Manager for Greece, Dimitrios Karagkioules, said: “Athens-Abu Dhabi has been a great success for us, it’s a key route, our numbers and load factors continue to perform well, and as we grow, we look forward to connecting this great and ancient city, with ever more points across the globe.

“Our Greek guests have the highest expectations from the world’s leading airline, and as we celebrate our tenth anniversary, this award is again testament to the hard work, innovation and impeccable service that we deliver.”

Etihad Airways commenced daily operations to and from Athens in June 2009, and since then has carried almost 300,000 travellers on the route.

In its 13^th year, the annual AIA workshop has become an important point of reference for all the sectors of the Greek transport and travel industry, including airlines, hotel chains, car rental companies and global distribution systems.

The main topics of this year’s workshop included the impact of the Eurozone economic crisis on the Greek travel industry, and how to stimulate aviation and tourism development.