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Etihad to fly twice daily to Sydney with the A350-1000 from 15 December

Etihad Airways Airbus A350-1000 A6-XWA in flight, archive photograph from 2024Aviation · Destinations

Etihad will fly twice daily between Abu Dhabi and Sydney from 15 December 2026. Four weekly services will join the current ten. Frequencies are therefore increasing by 40%, from ten to fourteen flights a week.

Airbus A350-1000 on the route

Etihad plans to operate the route with the Airbus A350-1000. The expansion will provide more than 5,000 seats a week in each direction.

Business features private suites with doors and lie-flat beds. Economy offers personal screens with Bluetooth audio.

The extra services coincide with the Australian summer and, according to the announcement, are already available to book.

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Etihad announcement, 28 September 2026

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Archive photograph from 2024: Anna Zvereva via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0. Original file unchanged; display crops may vary.