Alliance Officer

Due to the exciting expansion within our Etihad Cargo Division, we are adding team members to join our Cargo team. In this role, you will maintain partnerships with other airlines to enhance the Etihad network with incremental capacity on existing routes, capacity access to new routes, increased volume contribution and load factor on existing capacity, with reduced overall cost.

The candidate will be responsible for the administration and system implementation of new commercial agreements in the form of interline, block space agreements and joint freighter operations to deliver the Etihad partnerships strategy and revenue target.

Accountabilities

• Work closely with internal stakeholders including commercial team and revenue management to identify and implement new interline agreements to generate incremental revenue either from access to additional capacity or incremental volume feed onto Etihad capacity.
• Follow-up on agreed rates and capacity with the partnership airline that ensure the agreement is effective. 
• Support the line manager in gathering market data in relation to the ever-changing markets, and interline agreements with our partnerships on a weekly or monthly basis. 
• Track and monitor interline agreement revenue performance and conduct regular interline agreement review and renewals to ensure optimum portfolio of interline agreement.
• Follow-up service level agreements with partner capacity to deliver high service level consistency and performance manage partner service delivery through regular reviews.
• Work closely with revenue accounts to ensure interline billing and revenue reporting is at all times accurate and any problems are resolved quickly.
 

Requirements & Education:

• Bachelor’s degree preferably business or transport management related 
• Knowledge of the aviation industry is an advantage
• Minimum of 2 years experience in relevant field

About Etihad Airways

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, was formed in 2003 and quickly went on to become one of the world’s leading airlines. From its home in Abu Dhabi, Etihad flies to passenger and cargo destinations in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and North America. Together with Etihad’s codeshare partners, Etihad’s network offers access to hundreds of international destinations. In recent years, Etihad has received numerous awards for its superior service and products, cargo offering, loyalty programme and more. Etihad is recognised as one of the world’s leading airlines in response to COVID-19 and was the first airline in the world to fully vaccinate its crew on board.

Etihad sees tackling the climate crisis as the most important issue of our time, and through strategic partnerships with major global aviation brands and OEMs, Etihad is relentless in its pursuit of industry decarbonisation.

To learn more, visit etihad.com