Etihad Airways will bring back four of its luxurious A380s for the 2023 summer to fill gaps in capacity.
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Late in November in a tweet, @MZulqarnainBut1 said: "ETIHAD A380 Just been advised that crew training has begun again A380 will be back next year. Date to be confirmed **Soon**"
Now the airline has confirmed four will return.
The airline had 10 A380s and sold four leaving six but the airline had said that it was highly unlikely that the super jumbos would return when it grounded them back in 2020.
However with passenger demand surging the airline plans to bring some of the giants back perhaps on routes to London and Paris.
It is not clear however if Etihad will reactivate its super luxurious Residence product shown in this video below by Sam Chui. The Etihad A380 has 415 economy, 70 business class flat beds, 9 first-class closed suites and 1 Residence suite.
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