{"id":278738,"date":"2026-09-05T04:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/278738\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T04:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:22:09","slug":"etihad-ceo-says-airline-is-doubling-down-on-growth-despite-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/278738\/","title":{"rendered":"Etihad CEO says airline is doubling down on growth despite Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Etihad\u2019s Group CEO explains why the airline is still adding planes and routes after the Iran war derailed its record-profit momentum.<\/p>\n<p>Etihad Airways entered 2026 after its most profitable year on record. Then the Iran conflict disrupted flights, drove up jet-fuel costs and put its rapid expansion under pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Group CEO Antonoaldo Neves discusses how Etihad managed the crisis, why the airline is now targeting break-even for the year and why it is still betting on growth. <\/p>\n<p>Watch Antonoaldo Neves&#8217; interview on &#8220;Managing Middle East with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/dan-murphy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Murphy<\/a>&#8221; in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Etihad\u2019s Group CEO explains why the airline is still adding planes and routes after the Iran war derailed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[2622,135,34],"class_list":["post-278738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-airlines","tag-business-news","tag-iran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117216526054280857","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}