Airlines
Etihad To End Dallas Service Once AA Code Share Expires
Gulf carrier calls move one of several adjustments planned for U.S. network next year

Etihad Airways plans to close its Abu Dhabi-Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) route effective March 25, in the first service suspension the Persian Gulf airline has announced in reaction to American Airlines’s decision to end the  partners’ code-share agreement. The decision comes some five months after American notified both Etihad and fellow Gulf carrier Qatar Airways of its intention to sever code-share ties next March. American sent the notifications on June 29 in protest of what it and the other major U.S. carriers characterize as illegal subsidies from the governments of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to the respective OneWorld alliance partners.