• Boeing 77w Etihad Plane
• Boeing 77w Etihad

Etihad Airways' three-class Boeing 777-300ER will offer eight seats in Diamond First class, 40 in Pearl Business class and 280 in Coral Economy class. The airline currently operates 13 Boeing 777s and will add a further five this year, facilitating this increase in capacity to Melbourne. Etihad Seat Maps Boeing 777-300ER (77W) Two Class Layout 2 There are 3 versions of this aircraft.

There are 8 First Class, 52 Business Class, 24 Premium Economy, and 180 Economy Class seats. Seat rows are numbered from 1 to 42.

Boeing 77w Etihad Plane

Emergency exits are located on both sides at the front of the cabin, both sides behind row 6, both sides behind row 17, both sides in front of row 30, and both sides at the back of the cabin.

First Class seats are in rows 1 and 2.

The seat layout from left to right is A, aisle, D, G, aisle, K.

These seats come with a table at the front.

Armrests are non-movable for all of these seats.

Business Class seats are in rows 5 to 17.

The seat layout from left to right for rows 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 17 is A, aisle, D, F, aisle, H.

These seats come with a table on the right.

The seat layout from left to right for rows 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16 is C, aisle, E, G, aisle, K.

These seats come with a table on the left. Armrests are non-movable for all of these seats.

Premium Economy seats are in rows 18 to 20.

The seat layout from left to right is A, C, aisle, D, E, F, G, aisle, H, K.

Armrests are non-movable for all of these seats.

Economy Class seats are in rows 24 to 42.

The seat layout from left to right for rows 24 to 38 is A, B, C, aisle, D, E, F, G, aisle, H, J, K.

The seat layout from left to right for rows 39 to 41 is A, C, aisle, D, E, F, G, aisle, H, K. The seat layout from left to right for row 42 is A, C, aisle, D, E, F, G. Seats 30A, B, C, H, J, and K are emergency exit row seats.

Armrests are non-movable for all seats in rows 24 and 30 and seats 38A, B, C, H, J, and K. Seats 30A and 30K do not have a window.

Monitors are installed in front of rows 24 and 30.

A wheelchair-accessible lavatory is located behind seats 29A, B, and C.

Lavatories equipped with a multi-function bidet and diaper changing table are located in front of seats 1D and 1G, behind seat 6C, behind seat 6K, behind seat 17A, and behind seat 17H.

Lavatories equipped with a diaper changing table are located behind seats 29H, J, and K, and behind seats 42F and 42G.

A lavatory equipped with a multi-function bidet is located in front of seat 1A.

Lavatories are located behind seats 41H and 41K and behind seats 42A and 42C.

Galleys are located at the front of the cabin, behind row 6, behind row 29, in front of row 30, and at the back of the cabin.

A bar is located behind row 17.

United Arab Emirates (UAE) national carrier Etihad Airways is to boost capacity on its daily flights between Abu Dhabi and Melbourne, Australia later this year as it introduces a 328-seat Boeing 777-300ER on the route from December 1, 2013. Details of the aircraft switch were announced in Abu Dhabi this week by James Hogan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Etihad Airways, at a business dinner hosted by the Victorian Government and attended by 400 people.

The twin-engined Boeing 777-300ER will replace a smaller 292-seat Airbus A340, increasing its offering by 252 seats per week, a 12.3 per cent increase in capacity between the capital of the State of Victoria and the capital of the UAE. Since launching flights between Melbourne and Abu Dhabi in March 2009, Etihad Airways has carried over 580,000 passengers on the route, including 162,112 last year. Already this year, a load factor of 87 per cent has been achieved, one of the highest in the airline's network of 86 destinations.

'Melbourne is one of the best-performing routes in our global network, and has the highest passenger load factor of our three Australian destinations,' said Hogan. 'Our decision to increase capacity between Melbourne and Abu Dhabi reflects not only the growth we have achieved so far, but also our confidence in the Victorian market.'

“Melbourne is one of the best-performing routes in our global network, and has the highest passenger load factor of our three Australian destinations.”

Boeing 77w Etihad

Etihad Airways' three-class Boeing 777-300ER will offer eight seats in Diamond First class, 40 in Pearl Business class and 280 in Coral Economy class. The airline currently operates 13 Boeing 777s and will add a further five this year, facilitating this increase in capacity to Melbourne.

According to Hogan, Victorians are not only flying with Etihad Airways to Abu Dhabi, an emerging business and leisure destination, but also “on to destinations in the Gulf region, Middle East, Europe and Africa.” In the table below we highlight the estimated final destination of passengers travelling on Etihad’s flight between Melbourne and Abu Dhabi.

The analysis shows that point-to-point travellers from Melbourne to Abu Dhabi account for 8.1 per cent of the total with particularly large passenger flows into Europe: the largest markets being London Heathrow (19.6 per cent), Dublin (11.0 per cent) and Athens (9.8 per cent). Interestingly, Etihad Airways held a 10.5 per cent share of bi-directional passengers flying between Melbourne and Europe in 2011, ranking it fourth in this market behind Emirates Airline (21.3 per cent), Qantas (17.2 per cent) and Qatar Airways (10.6 per cent).