With a setting capacity of 133 guests, United Arab Emirates' flag carrier Etihad Airways opened its new premium Lounge at Melbourne Airport, offering guests a place to relax, re-energise, dine, work or be entertained pre-flight. This is the airline’s largest premium lounge outside Abu Dhabi.

Giving the residents an opportunity to enjoy the exclusivity of a private lounge discreetly located adjacent to the main lounge entry. With the commencement of A380 services from June 1.

 Etihad Airways’ senior vice president for marketing, Shane O’Hare said "The new lounge at Melbourne Airport is in a class of its own."
"The opening of this remarkable new facility and the launch of our flagship A380 services on June 1, offer travellers on the Melbourne-Abu Dhabi route our most compelling guest experience proposition ever."

This new facility will avail the airline expand its portfolio of premium longue in Sydney, Abu Dhabi, Dublin, Frankfurt, London Heathrow, Manchester, Paris, Washington and New York. A new First Class Lounge at Abu Dhabi International Airport and a new First and Business Class Lounge at Los Angeles will follow in the coming months.