Updated 25 November 2024 with the official list of destinations below!
Etihad Airways is getting ready to announce ten new destinations this Monday the 25th, and they’ve been building up the suspense with little hints. They want you to guess where they might be.
The fun thing about this is even the people I know at the airline have no idea what the new cities are.
Etihad has been busy
Etihad has been busy the last couple of years adding aircraft, reactivating A380s, installing new cabins and adding cities to the route map. And we’ve had the chance to be around for some of the fun as we’ve joined the Abu Dhabi-based airline for a number of cockpit flight videos as well as looks at their heavy aircraft maintenance, crew training and more.
They are lots of fun to work with creating content. That makes it extra exciting that the airline is getting ready to announce these ten new destinations.
What are your guesses?
So I’m curious: which new destinations do you think are going to be on the list? Leave you guesses in the comments below, and let’s discuss.
I have my own list of cities – it’s a combination of educated guesses plus just straight-up wishful thinking and/or dreaming. But that’s part of the fun right. Here’s my list. Let me know what you think. Are any just way off? And we’ll see how many I got right in a few days.
My destination guess list
- Zagreb (ZAG)
- Belgrade (BEG)
- Marrakesh (RAK)
- São Paulo (GRU)
- Chiang Mai (CNX)
- Taipei (TPE)
- Ho Chi Minh City (SGN)
- Philadelphia (PHL)
- Miami (MIA)
- Cape Town (CPT)
How did we do? (The destinations revealed!)
Etihad today revealed the list of destinations and it turns out I only got two out of ten of them! That’s not a great batting average, however I am pleased I guessed Chiang Mai. I’m also personally happy to see Hong Kong added to the list as it’s somewhere I like to go pretty often. As you’ll see there’s a big focus on Asia in general. Here are the cities Etihad will begin flying to from next year:
- Algiers (A321LR; beginning November 7, 2025)
- Tunis (A321LR; beginning November 1, 2025)
- Atlanta (A350-1000; beginning July 2, 2025)
- Hong Kong (787-9; beginning November 5, 2025)
- Chiang Mai (A321LR; beginning November 3, 2025)
- Hanoi (A321LR; beginning November 3, 2025)
- Krabi (A321LR; beginning October 9, 2025)
- Phnom Penh (A321LR; beginning October 3, 2025)
- Taipei (Boeing 787-9, beginning September 7, 2025)
- Medan (A321LR; beginning October 2, 2025)
What’s especially interesting is how much they’re utilizing the new A321LR fleet to grow. It makes a lot of sense. I’m especially eager to try out their A321LR cabin with two First Class seats at the front.
What do you think of the list of cities?
24 Responses
• Warsaw
• Al Alamein
• Prague
Perth (PER)?
Warsaw, Al Alamein and Prague were previously announced, and not included in the upcoming ten.
About time you started flying from EMA, plenty of slots.
Stockholm/ARN
Miami, Houston, São Paulo, Taipei, Santiago de Chile, Auckland, Cape Town
Chattogram, Dhaka
Stockholm
The first seconds of the video you can see blue mugs with 3 crowns 👍
Stockholm
In the first seconds of the video you can see blue mugs with 3 crowns
• Las Vegas (LAS)?
• Hong Kong (HKG) (as a passenger destination)
•. San Francisco (SFO)
• Los Angeles (LAX)
• Dubai (DXB)
Hong Kong
Lagos
Tehran
Ho Chi Minh
Addis Ababa
Perth
Sao Paolo
Oslo
Atlanta
Miami
Chiang Mai (CNX)
Ho Chi Minh City (SGN)
Zagreb (ZAG)
Cape Town (CPT)
Taipei (TPE)
Belgrade (BEG)
São Paulo (GRU)
Marrakesh (RAK)
Philadelphia (PHL)
Miami (MIA)
Chiang Mai (CNX)
Ho Chi Minh City (SGN)
Zagreb (ZAG)
Cape Town (CPT)
Taipei (TPE)
Belgrade (BEG)
São Paulo (GRU)
HAMBURG(HAM)
Philadelphia (PHL)
Miami (MIA)
Kazan, Russia; Hahaya, Comoros; Taipei, Taiwan; Vancouver, Canada; Terhan, Iran; Abha, Saudi Arabia; Antalya, Turkey; Peshawar, Pakistan; Denver, USA
LAX? A new etihad lounge was recently spotted
Glasgow
Maybe Marseille (MRS) or Nice (NCE) in France ?
Oslo, Stockholm, Agadir, Taipei (TPE)
Ho Chi Minh City (SGN)
I think Perth (YPPH) will be brought back from some of the teasers like the post with a picture of broome
Hopefully I wish for Stockholm.
Geneva
Prague
Munich
Belgrade
Brussels
Dallas
Chongqing (dragon dance book cover)
Taipei (Taipei tower painting)
Medan (Sumatra)
Helsinki (cathedral white city)
Hamburg (elbphilharmonie card)
Mexico City or Lima Peru (Sombrero city of kings)
Hong Kong ( fragrance harbour)
Berlin or Ibiza (night club)
Tunis (Carthage)
California or New Zealand (last scene)
Ljubljana
Oslo Airport for sure!