Etihad Airways, ndege ya dziko la United Arab Emirates, ndi Saudia, wonyamula mbendera yadziko la Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, adachita chikumbutso choyamba cha mgwirizano wawo wamalonda polengeza njira zatsopano za codeshare zopita kumayiko ena ku Asia ndi Europe.
Chiyambireni kusaina mgwirizano wawo mu Okutobala, 2018, ndege ziwirizi zakhazikitsa ziphaso zawo pakati pa Abu Dhabi ndi mizinda ya Saudi Arabia ku Dammam, Jeddah, Riyadh ndi Medina. Saudia yawonjezeranso nambala yake ya 'SV' ku ndege za Etihad pakati pa Abu Dhabi ndi malo ena 12 - Ahmedabad, Belgrade, Brisbane, Chengdu, Chicago, Dusseldorf, Lagos, Melbourne, Moscow-Domodedovo, Rabat, Seychelles ndi Sydney - pomwe Etihad adayika nambala yake ya 'EY' paulendo waku Saudia wopita ku Peshawar, Multan, Port Sudan ndi Vienna.
Pansi pa mgwirizano womwe walengezedwa lero, ndipo malinga ndi kuvomerezeka, Saudia ipitilizabe kuwonjezera nambala yake kumaulendo apandege a Etihad pakati pa Abu Dhabi ndi malo ena 11 m'maiko asanu ndi anayi a Amsterdam, Baku, Brussels, Dublin, Hong Kong, Kathmandu, Bangkok, Phuket, Nagoya, Tokyo ndi Seoul, zomwe zikuwonjezera mphamvu ku Saudia.
Tony Douglas, Chief Executive Officer wa Gulu la Etihad Aviation Group, adati: "United Arab Emirates ndi Kingdom of Saudi Arabia zili ndi mgwirizano wolimba pazachuma, zamayiko ndi zikhalidwe, ndipo mgwirizano pakati pa omwe akutitengera mayiko awiriwa ndikuwonjezera kwachilengedwe komanso kopindulitsa maubale. ”
"Chiyambireni kulengeza mgwirizano wathu nthawi ino chaka chatha, tonse tapindula maulendo opitilira 53,500 okwera, kasanu maulendo 11,390 a 2018 yonse. Mgwirizano wochulukirapo womwe talengeza lero upereka chiwonjezeko chowonjezeka ku ndege zonse ziwirizi, zipereka chisankho chachikulu kwa okwera komanso ogula katundu, komanso kulimbitsa ubale pakati pa mayiko athu. ”
Mtsogoleri Wamkulu wa Saudi Arabia Airlines Eng. Saleh bin Nasser Al-Jasser, anathirira ndemanga pamgwirizano womwe unakulitsidwawo: "Kukula kwa ma netiweki komanso mwayi wofika komwe amapita kumapereka mwayi kwa alendo athu kuti azitha kusintha. Ndife okondwa kupititsa patsogolo mgwirizano wathu ndi Etihad Airways ndikupitilizabe kuthandizira kukula kwa ntchito ndi misewu. "
Etihad Airways imagwiritsa ntchito malo pafupifupi 80, kuphatikiza anayi ku Saudi Arabia, pomwe Saudia imayendetsa ndege m'makontinenti anayi ndi ndege zamakono zosakanikirana za ndege zopapatiza komanso za widebody.
