Originally Posted by SighMN

Etihad as an airline has a really good case to be considered a major international airline worthy of its own forum. It serves about 68 destinations, and it announces more and more destinations almost every month. It has one of the airline industry's most ambitious expansion plans in terms of purchasing aircraft and new destinations and code shares.

Etihad's product is highly rated for the most part, and its first class and business class product are industry leading. As controversial as some of those travel awards are, it has gained quite a few in the last few years. Most users of Flyertalk seem to want to fly Etihad and are curious to learn more.