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119
člani ce / member airl ines
ukupno / total etihad airways partners
Etihad Airways
Air Berlin
Alitalia
JET Airways
aviona / airplanes
121
130
136
116
putnika / passengers 2015*
17,4
M
30,2
M
22,7
M
21,5
M
destinacija / destinations
116
150
83
73
Niki
Air Serbia
Air Seychelles Etihad Regional
aviona / airplanes
23
20
9
11
putnika / passengers 2015*
5
M
2,6
M
0,5
M
0,5
M
destinacija / destinations
60
44
9
15
* u milionima / million
566 100.4 M
*
549
A320
čarima koji zahtevaju čist povraćaj svog
ulaganja. Mi nemano nikakve subvencije
niti podršku države.
I
n an industry dominated by legacy
airlines, no new network carrier could
hope to compete effectively in its own,
said President and CEO of Etihad Airways
James Hogan, speaking at The Wings
Club in New York. - Yet without new
competition, consumers around the world
would suffer.
Delivering the keynote address at the
monthly Wings Club meeting, Mr Hogan
said:
- Global air travel is a business with
incredibly high barriers to entry – not
just in terms of cost, but in market access,
infrastructure requirements and the
challenge of competing against such
entrenched mega-carriers. The highest
barrier is network. You can’t build a global
network overnight – in fact, you’d need
decades, and billions of dollars, to build
networks that could compete against the
major airline groups.
- That’s where partnership comes in
– explained Mr. Hogan. - From day one,
we’ve taken an open partnership ap-
proach, working with scores of airlines on
codeshare agreements. Then we took that
a step further with minority equity invest-
ments in strategically important airlines.
- Together, we have been able to create
a new competitive choice for air travellers
in key markets around the world. That’s
good for consumers, good for tourism and
good for trade.
Mr Hogan said Etihad Airways’ equity
investment strategy was a key element of
that approach.
- That has helped to create the seventh
largest airline group in the world and is
delivering hundreds of millions of dollars
to our business.
Mr Hogan said Etihad Airways’ entry
into the United States market had also
brought major benefits to the country.
- We are a tiny player in the US air
travel market, with less than 0.01 per cent
of daily international departures. However,
we have been able to offer major benefits
to the United States. We connect the US,
through our hub in Abu Dhabi, with scores
of markets which are simply not served by
other carriers.
- We’ve also been a close business
partner with US corporations – most ob-
viously with Boeing and other aerospace
suppliers, but we’ve also created major
partnerships with Sabre, Honeywell, IBM,
Adobe and many others.
Mr Hogan said he believed much of
the issues raised about Etihad Airways by
the Open Skies campaign stemmed from
a lack of understanding of the airline’s
business model.
- There are many myths about our
business. But the truth is that we run as a
commercial organisation, with a sharehold-
er that demands a clear return on its invest-
ment. We get no subsidies or state support.