NIKI is now permitted to fly to Abu Dhabi, but cancels some Europe routes

The first NIKI long-haul flight from Vienna to Abu Dhabi take off daily in codeshare agreement with Etihad Airways from now on. For the first time, NIKI also offers on board their A320 flights a business class. The cooperation of the jointly controlled flights with Etihad Airways is to be extended subsequently to more than 20 routes from Abu Dhabi to Asia, Australia and the Gulf Region. In response, Lufthansa will scale back their daily flights from Frankfurt to Abu Dhabi starting next summer – while competitor, Etihad Airways looks to dominate Abu Dhabi with 49 flights. Even though – NIKI will eliminate some existing European routes. The flights from Vienna to Copenhagen and Frankfurt have already been deleted, the cancellation of Vienna – Moscow will follow in January 2015.