Summary
- Etihad Airways may have 4 every day A380 flights to Heathrow for 15 days in January.
- While that may not seem much, it has never had so many double-decker services on the route before.
- When other carriers are included, the UK’s busiest airport will now have as much as 13 every day A380 departures to the Middle East.
Etihad Airways has increased Airbus A380 flights to London Heathrow to 4 every day, although only in January. Schedule evaluation using Cirium data shows that it has had 4 every day double-decker flights on just three occasions because it first introduced the kind on the route in December 2014. It comes ahead of the carrier reintroducing the quadjet to Recent York JFK in April 2024.
That is the newest information
Based on Etihad’s latest schedule upload and now bookable, its 4 every day Heathrow services will take effect on January eighth. Thereafter, the four-class, 498-seat equipment will operate at that frequency on January ninth, tenth, 14th, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, twenty first, twenty second, twenty third, twenty fourth, twenty eighth, twenty ninth, thirtieth, and thirty first.
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Etihad’s Heathrow schedule for those 15 days is as follows, with all times local. On the 16 days that can see the double-decker 4 every day, the three-class, 231-seat 787-9 can be used as a substitute, providing 267 fewer seats per departure. It’ll still have first-class, but obviously no The Residence cabin, which is just on the double-decker.
Direction |
Flight number |
Times (local) |
Comments |
---|---|---|---|
Abu Dhabi to Heathrow |
EY11 |
02:40-06:45 |
A380 |
EY19 |
08:05-12:00 |
A380 |
|
EY25 |
10:45-14:30 |
A380, otherwise the 787-9 |
|
EY17 |
14:05-18:10 |
A380 |
|
Heathrow to Abu Dhabi |
EY12 |
09:00-20:00 |
A380 |
EY20 |
13:55-00:55+1 |
A380 |
|
EY26 |
19:20-06:10+1 |
A380, otherwise the 787-9 |
|
EY18 |
20:55-07:55+1 |
A380 |
13 every day Heathrow-Middle East A380s
Specifically examining Middle East flights, Heathrow may have as much as 13 every day A380 departures in January (so 26 roundtrip). Cirium indicates that there have never been greater than 13 every day. It first had that many on June third, 2016, and last did so on November thirteenth, 2023.