Source: Reuters Author: Natsuko Waki 01/30/2010
Subject Concerned: Airlines
Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways chief executive James Hogan reiterated on Jan. 30 that the airline is set to make a profit in 2011.
The national carrier of the world's third largest oil exporter has pushed back a profitability target by a year as the financial crisis had hit yields and the global flu pandemic had slowed passenger traffic.
"Our profit target is 2011," Hogan told Reuters Insider television on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The six-year old airline competes with Dubai's Emirates and Qatar Airways.