On December 1, Etihad Airways officially opened new routes of Abu Dhabi, the capital of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city to the United Arab Emirates, and strengthen its market position in East Africa.

Dar es Salaam route is following the Nairobi, Entebbe, Etihad Airways in East Africa opened the third route, and in Africa, opened the nine routes.

The new route by the two cabin layout of the Airbus A320 to fly, business class and economy class respectively, 16 and 120 seats, a day.

Etihad Airways, Africa is a powerful and great potential of emerging markets, we believe that the region has bright future growth prospects. Tanzania route not only allows passengers to fly directly to an exciting business and tourist destination, but also to further strengthen our market position in East Africa and the African continent as a whole. The daily route via the Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi hub provides a two-way interface, to China, the Middle East, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, North and South Asia and Australia 45 popular favored destination for passengers to provide convenient continued convergence process.

It is expected, especially in East Africa and the Indian subcontinent between China and strong business and leisure passenger and cargo transportation will promote the needs of visitors to this new route.

ATI Etihad senior vice president of global sales, Daniel Barranger said "Dar es Salaam Etihad Airways routes opened, in line with the US focus on the strategy in the area of strong growth in emerging markets. We not only want to attract visitors from Tanzania, but also to attract more visitors from Asia, especially China."

And this is also the Chinese government to promote the "along the way" strategy. Tanzania's population of more than 5000, is Africa's sixth largest population, but also one of the most rapidly developing economies in East Africa, and the country is also the country along the way strategic important.

Since 2009, China's 5 consecutive years ranked first in Africa's largest trading partner. Trade and investment relations between China and Africa are very important for the two countries. As far as China is concerned, Africa is an increasingly important raw material supplier - the most important one is that of crude oil, iron ore / iron ore concentrate and copper, which promote the rapid development of China's infrastructure. For Africa, China is a major trading partner and investment, not only to provide cheap consumer goods, but also to buy its natural resources, to provide help for the construction of its infrastructure.

But since the 2004 opened Cairo's first route, the steady growth of Etihad business in mainland Africa. Thereafter, Etihad Airways and have opened a Casablanca, Entebbe, Johannesburg, Khartoum, Lagos, Nairobi and the Seychelles Mahe route, and plans to open in mid January 2016, Rabat, Morocco route.

Abu Dhabi is the base of Etihad Airways Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai and Hong Kong routes, the Gulf region is also a key aviation hub, Etihad Airways strong global network to China and Africa and along the way "in the area along the link. Therefore, the United Arab Emirates and Abu Dhabi set to 'along the way' strategy implementation to an important role.