Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has signed a code-share agreement with China Eastern Airlines. The new agreement is the Abu Dhabi-based airline's 37th code-share services facility. It follows the exchange of a comprehensive Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Shanghai-based Chinese carrier in March this year. The new code-share services between Abu Dhabi and China go on sale on 30th August, 2012 for travel from 3rd September, according to a report of the UAE news agency "WAM".