Etihad business class from Amman after five years: the Business Studio, the Levant crew in the premium cabin
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#1 Etihad, from Amman, five years, business class, and the Etihad business thread on here is the promotion timeline. This is the cabin itself from a Levant crew member, because the Etihad premium cabins have a specific character and the Arabic speakers have a specific place in them.
The Business Studio
Etihad's business product on the 787, the A350 and the 777: the Studio seats with the direct aisle access, the dine anytime concept, the Arabic coffee and dates ritual Mohammed described extended into the premium cabin with the full Arabic hospitality on the Gulf and Levant routes. The A380 Residence and the Apartments on the returning A380s, which are their own thread.
The Levant crew in the premium cabin
Disproportionately present, for the reason Tariq described at Emirates: the Arabic on the Gulf and Levant and North Africa routes, the pursers putting the Arabic speakers on them, the business passengers from the region who want the Arabic hospitality from a crew member who has it natively. The Jordanians, the Lebanese, the Egyptians, the Moroccans are the business cabin on the Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Casablanca, Riyadh and Jeddah flights. It is an asset in the bidding and in the appraisals and the recruiters at the Levant events know it.
The service
Between the Qatar choreography and the Emirates warmth: the Etihad style is the Abu Dhabi style, more formal than Dubai and less rigid than Doha, with the Arabic hospitality as the identity. The dine anytime on a 13 hour sector is Layla's twelve orders with the Etihad menu, and the pad is the same pad.
The quiet Abu Dhabi life that suits some
Every Etihad thread says it and I will say it as a Jordanian: Abu Dhabi suits a quiet person and I am one. The Amman commute at three hours, the Jordanian community that is smaller than Dubai's and closer, the Corniche in winter, the Abu Dhabi to Dubai bus for the loud nights that I take twice a year. The crew who need the noise leave. The crew who wanted the quiet and the operation size stay, and the Levant crew stay more than most.
For the Levant applicants at the Amman and Beirut events
The Arabic is the premium cabin asset at Etihad as at Emirates, say so. The quiet city is a feature for some and a problem for others, know which you are. The commute is three hours. And the Business Studio on the Amman route with the Arabic coffee and a Jordanian purser is a specific pride that the Levant crew at Etihad have.
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#2 Etihad from Alexandria, and the Arabic coffee ritual extended into business is the thing I love most on the Cairo route in economy and I imagine more in business. Amira has the Levant premium cabin and the quiet city exactly. The Egyptians and the Jordanians at Etihad share both.
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#3 Emirates purser from Amman, and the Levant crew in the Etihad premium cabin for the Arabic is the Emirates pattern at the neighbour. Amira's Business Studio on the Amman route with a Jordanian purser is the pride the Jordanian crew in the Gulf have at both airlines.
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#4 Beirut, Etihad applying, and 'know which you are' about the quiet city is the question I have been avoiding. I think I am the quiet one. The Beirut commute and the Arabic in the premium cabin are the picture of year five. Thank you.
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#5 Etihad, UK, business for a year, and the Abu Dhabi style being between Doha and Dubai is right and the Arabic hospitality as the identity is the thing the non Arabic crew learn from the Levant crew in the galley. Amira taught me the coffee pour.
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#6 Qatar business, Tunisian, and the Etihad premium cabin from a Levant crew member reads like ours with the Abu Dhabi formality instead of the Doha choreography. The twelve orders and the pad are universal. The coffee ritual is Etihad's.
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#7 Etihad, Canadian, and the Levant crew in business being the Arabic asset is the thing the North American crew notice: we are on the Toronto and New York routes and they are on the Amman and Riyadh ones. The pursers bid us by language. It works.
