Etihad Airways to Fly 787 Dreamliners to Jakarta and Maldives

Etihad Airways will introduce the Boeing 787 Dreamliner on its flights from Abu Dhabi to Jakarta, Indonesia, and will upgrade its daily morning service to Male, Maldives, to the wide-body aircraft on a seasonal basis.

The airline’s two daily scheduled services from Abu Dhabi to the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, will be operated on a year-round basis by a two-class Boeing 787-9. Effective Oct. 27, the overnight service will transition to a Dreamliner operation and the aircraft will be introduced on the daytime service from Dec. 19.

The airline will also operate the next-generation aircraft on its daily morning service from Abu Dhabi to Male from Oct. to Apr. 30, 2020. This morning service will continue to be supplemented by a second overnight departure.