I-Etihad Airways iqoka iPhini Likamongameli elisha emazweni aseMelika

I-Etihad Airways iqoke u-Simon Newton-Smith njengePhini likaMongameli Wamazwe aseMelika njengoba inkampani yezindiza iqhubeka nokuqinisa ubukhona bayo ezwenikazi laseNyakatho Melika. 

UNewton-Smith uza naye iminyaka engaphezu kwengu-20 yesipiliyoni sokuthengisa namasu ezentengiselwano esebenza nezinkampani ezidumile njenge-Virgin Atlantic Airways, Qatar Airways kanye neSouth African Airways. Ezindimeni zakhe zangaphambili u-Newton-Smith ubelokhu ebucayi ekusebenziseni amasu okuthengisa nokuthengisa ukuze kwandiswe imali engenayo, ukwengamela ukubambisana kwamasu kanye nezinhlangano ezihlanganyelwe ukushayela ukusebenza kokuthengisa, nokuhlonza nokusebenzisa izinqubo eziphumelelayo zokwehlisa izindleko. 

“I-Etihad Airways iyakuthokozela ukwamukela u-Simon Newton-Smith ethimbeni njengoba siqinisekisa ukuzibophezela kwethu emakethe yaseNyakatho Melika,” kusho u-Edward Fotheringham, iPhini Likamongameli eYurophu naseMelika, i-Etihad Airways. “I-Etihad isanda kwandisa ubudlelwano bayo be-codeshare ne-JetBlue futhi yengeza izindiza zethu ezintsha ze-A350 emkhunjini wethu waseNyakatho Melika. Ubuchwepheshe bukaSimon buzofaka isandla ezinhlelweni zethu zokwandisa imakethe futhi busisize ukuthi siqhubeke nokuqinisa isikhundla sethu njengenkampani yezindiza ekhethwa kakhulu kubahambi baseNyakatho Melika.”   

Njengamanje i-Etihad inakekela imizila ezindaweni ezinkulu zaseNyakatho Melika okuhlanganisa iNew York City, iWashington DC, iChicago neToronto. Inkampani yezindiza isanda kwandisa ubambiswano lwayo lwe-codeshare nenkampani yezindiza yedolobha laseNew York i-JetBlue inikeze amakhasimende e-Etihad Airways amathuba engeziwe okufinyelela ezindaweni zonkana eNyakatho Melika, e-Caribbean, Central kanye naseNingizimu Melika.

“Isikhathi esijabulisayo sokujoyina i-Etihad, esanda kuthumela inzuzo eqopha umlando ngemuva kokwenza izinguquko ezibone ukuthi inkampani yethula ukuthuthukiswa komkhiqizo wabo ngokugxila kakhulu ekusimameni,” kusho uNewton-Smith. "Inkampani inezinhlelo ezifisayo ngezwe laseMelika futhi ngijabule kakhulu ukujoyina iqembu ngalesi sikhathi esibalulekile njengoba sihlose ukuqinisa ubukhona bethu emakethe."