Etihad upgrades Melbourne to A380

Etihad Airways has officially announced that it will be upgrading one of its two daily Abu Dhabi-Melbourne nonstop flights to an Airbus A380 effective 01JUN16. Currently, both flights are flown using a 3 class B777-300ER exclusively. 

The extra capacity comes on the heels of EY's renewed aggressive focus on the Kangaroo route as it seeks to poach away higher number of premium class passengers bound from EU/UK to MEL with their flagship A380 product.