Etihad wins leading first class airline award

Etihad Airways, the UAE national airline, was chosen as the ‘world’s leading first class airline’ during this year’s World Travel Awards.

Nearly 170,000 professionals in the travel industry, from countries around the world voted in the awards, which were awarded at a ceremony held at the Beaches Turks and Caicos Resort and Spa in the Caribbean. More than 110,000 travel agents were represented in the voting.

This major international accolade follows just months after the airline, based in Abu Dhabi, was awarded regional ‘leading first class’ airline at October’s Middle East World Travel Awards.

Etihad’s chief executive, James Hogan, said: “To be voted the world’s best by nearly 170,000 travel professionals from around the globe is a great honour and testament to the investment we continue to place in our flagship first class product.”

He added: “WTA adjudged our first class to be the best in the Middle East in October, so to receive the top global award now rounds off a fantastic year for us.”

On Etihad Airways, first class passengers are provided with the carrier’s award-winning fully-flat bed seat that has an 80in seat pitch, and is self-contained in its own privacy ‘cocoon,’ equipped with mood lighting that is designed to help relieve jet lag.

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