Ethiopian Airlines was awarded the Gold Award for African Airline of the Year 2011/2012 from the African Aviation News portal. Ethiopian Airlines earned this distinguished honor by receiving the highest number of votes from readers, industry officials, and followers of African Aviation. More than 20,000 total votes were registered in this year’s poll, both online [...]
Ethiopian Airlines, Ethiopia’s flag carrier, will not introduce additional fees on tickets of passengers to and from Europe to offset the European Union carbon emission costs levied on all airlines operating in Europe as part of the European Emission Trading Scheme according to a statement. The Ethiopian airline is in the process of modernizing its [...]
Ethiopian Airlines wins the Gold Award in the African Airline of the Year 2011/2012 Award given by African Aviation News portal. Ethiopian Airlines emerged ahead of the pack garnering the highest number of the votes cast in by the readers and followers of African Aviation, who voted in an online poll, set up at the [...]
Ethiopian Airlines is launching three-times-weekly service from Addis Ababa to Dammam, the capital of Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province, starting on February 12. According to a press release Ethiopian sent to ENA on Friday, Dammam will be its 8th destination in the Middle East and its 64th worldwide. Ethiopian CEO, Tewolde Gebremariam said the new flight [...]
Kenyan’s national carrier, Kenya airways said on Thursday it registered a 15.4 per cent increase in passenger numbers for its third quarter with 956,742 passengers using the airline compared to the same period last year. The airline said in a statement released in Nairobi that its capacity in the domestic front and to Europe registered [...]
Ethiopian Airlines has sold its five Fokker 50 regional turboprops to Fortran Aviation Limited, and is negotiating with Bombardier to replace them with five new Q400 turboprops. Ethiopian Airlines Chief Executive Oficer Tewolde Gebremariam said the aircraft were sold so that the airline could buy new aircraft. He added that the aircraft were transferred at [...]
Ethiopian Airlines has awarded a new maintenance hangar construction project worth 100 million dollars to the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) after a competitive bid, according to Capital. “The maintenance hangar has been awarded to AVIC and we are talking about the financing of the project. We will finance it through loan arrangements with [...]
Nine African airlines are to jointly source for jet fuel as a way of reducing costs in an unpredictable international oil market. The nine, all members of the African Airlines Association (AFRAA), have already concluded evaluating tender bids from fuel companies. “We expect that there will be reasonable savings from the project,” Kenya Airways finance [...]
Ethiopian Airlines, Ethiopia’s flag carrier, accepted the bid submitted by the Aviation Industry Corporation of China to construct a 100 million dollar maintenance hanger. The AVIC and Ethiopian Airlines are discussing financing for the project said Tewolde Gebremariam, Chief Executive of Ethiopian Airlines. It is expected that the construction project for the maintenance hanger will [...]
Ethiopian Airlines, Ethiopia’s flag carrier, announced a 20% pay raise for all employees effective as of the first month of 2012. The board of directors of Ethiopian approved the salary increment according to the Public Relations Department of the airline. The 20 percent raise was granted by the board and management of Ethiopian Airlines to [...]