This African Airline Wants to Be the New Emirates
Ethiopian Airlines is growing by leaps and bounds, challenging the regional dominance of foreign carriers and now expanding into the U.S.
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article on Ethiopian Airlines highlighting the Airline’s continued success in multiple aspects, challenging European and Middle Eastern airlines. The piece also mentions the ever expanding network of Ethiopian in tandem with its growth, the expansion work at Bole International Airport, the Airline’s hotel project and the successful autonomous management Ethiopian enjoys. The article goes,
“A new global air hub is developing in an unlikely place: this highland capital in East Africa. Over the past decade, state-owned Ethiopian Airlines has become Africa’s largest carrier and bought stakes in continental rivals while quadrupling its passenger count to nearly 10 million. It has built one of the world’s youngest fleets, including dozens of Airbus SE and Boeing Co. planes. For the first time, an African airline is challenging European and Middle Eastern airlines’ commercial dominance of the continent’s skies. And now, Ethiopian Airlines is also pushing into North America, adding a fifth destination—Chicago—this year.”
The article also includes comments from experts and passengers. Mairéad O’Grady, a 30-year-old educator from Washington DC who flew on Ethiopian to Uganda recently said, “It was a combination of the cost and the flight time; it seemed like the best of both options.”
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