[ 2017-01-19 ]

Ethiopian Airlines plans record expansion
Africa’s largest airline group, Ethiopian
Airlines, is delighted to announce that it will
launch seven new destinations within five months
during the 2017 calendar year.

This is one of the greatest expansions in
Ethiopian’s long and illustrious history.

From February to June, Ethiopian will launch new
service to Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe), Antananarivo
(Madagascar), Conakry (Guinea), Oslo (Norway),
Chengdu (China), Jakarta (Indonesia) and Singapore
(Singapore). With the addition of these stations,
Ethiopian will have service from Addis Ababa to 98
different international cities located across the
world.

Group CEO Ethiopian Airlines, Mr. Tewolde
GebreMariam, said: “Africa’s share of the
Global Aviation is the smallest which is only
around 3%.

As the largest airline group in the continent, we
are highly concerned on the low base of air
connectivity in the continent and we are setting
record expansion to enable Africans enjoy safe,
reliable and economical air connectivity both
within the continent and between the continent and
the rest of the world.

Looking beyond the current economic slowdown
especially in the oil export dependent economies
of Africa, we firmly believe that the continent
will become the magnet for foreign direct
investment, trade and tourism, which are the
engines of air travel growth and in turn efficient
air connectivity also drives socio economic
development and we are happy to contribute our
share in the 21st Century African
Transformation.”

In the just ended calendar year alone, new flights
to Moroni (Comoros), WindHoek (Namibia) and Newark
(United States) were launched, as well as three
cities in Ethiopia:Hawassa, Kebridahar and
Dembidolo.  Ethiopian is one of the fastest
growing airlines in the world, and we are
expanding our wings every year.

Ethiopian envisages to reach 120 international
destinations worldwide by the year 2025.98 down,
22 to go!

Source - Ethiopian Airlines

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