Addis Ababa- Ethiopian Airlines has earned another accolade from The African Airlines Association (AFRAA) for being consistently profitable over the years and recording the best financial results in 2010. Ethiopian was honored with the prestigious award at the 43rd AFRAA Annual General Assembly held in Marrakesh, Morocco on November 21, 2011. Mr. Yissehak Zewoldi, Vice President [...]
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called for a renewed focus on aviation safety to help Africa reap the benefits of aviation connectivity, as it expressed concern over the continent’s accident rate. In 2005 Africa recorded nearly 10 hull losses per million flights with Western built jets. By 2008 that had been reduced to [...]
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 21 (Bernama) — Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is offering free transportation for relief goods to be sent to the country’s flood victims, said Pakistan’s High Commissioner, Masood Khalid. He said the country was in need of relief goods such as blankets, mosquito nets, mosquito repellent, jerrycans, water coolers, plastic sheets, buckets, hygiene [...]
Ethiopian Airlines has received its fifth and final new Boeing 777-200LR, which arrived at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport late last week. The aircraft arrived on July 22, flying at full capacity from Seattle with a stopover in Paris, the airline announced. Ethiopian Airlines has named its five 777-200LRs after African land marks highlighting its [...]
British travellers catching flights to Amsterdam with KLM to connect to the airline’s global network will soon be able to choose from some new culinary options during long-haul journeys. The airline will introduce ‘a la carte’ meals for economy passengers on intercontinental flights from 14 September. For an additional fee, travellers will be able to [...]
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has rolled out software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider RightNow’s CX Intent Guide on its mobile website to help customers receive quicker answers to online queries. KLM’s mobile site receives more than 20,000 visits a day and allows customers to book flights, check-in and see flight status. RightNow’s CX Intent Guide uses natural language [...]
Air France said Monday it was to launch cheap medium-haul flights from French provincial cities in a bid to boost passenger figures and reclaim market share from low-cost carriers. French-Dutch aviation giant Air France-KLM announced that, starting on October 2, 13 new flights would link the southern city of Marseille to destinations in France, Europe [...]
Ethiopian Airlines expects to receive delivery of Boeing Co.’s (BA) new 787 Dreamliner passenger jets in March 2012, Fikre Degife, the carrier’s regional director for China, said Thursday. Speaking at an aviation conference in Shanghai, Degife said the delivery had been delayed from December as originally scheduled but “we expect them to come in March. [...]
Ethiopian Airlines recently appointed airline and tourism management group, Aviareps, to manage its global corporate sales in Europe and Asia. Joseph Fernandes, General Manager – India, Aviareps said, ”This tie-up gives us the opportunity to promote Ethiopian Airlines as a corporate carrier in India.” With two Global Account Managers responsible for the development of the [...]
African carrier, Ethiopian Airlines has started additional flights to South Sudan’s Malakal town in the Upper Nile region, the second destination to the region the Airliner offers services to. Ethiopian Airlines announced that flights to Malakal began on 17 June 2011. In May 2006, the Ethiopian airlines for the first time launched weekly four flight [...]