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Etihad Airways to launch flights to Ethiopia

May 28, 2012 · 294248 Comments2012-05-28+10%3A21%3A54Hassan+Ali

ABU DHABI — Etihad Airways will add the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to its rapidly growing network in November 2012. The airline will also start flying to the Indian city of Ahmedabad in the same month.

The two new cities will expand the airline’s reach to 86 passenger and cargo destinations around the world.

The new routes will each be served by an Airbus A320 aircraft and support Etihad Airways’ aims to connect key strategic cities with its home base of Abu Dhabi, enhancing commercial and leisure travel with the UAE’s capital city.

Flights between Abu Dhabi and Addis Ababa, its ninth destination in Africa, will initially operate five times a week, increasing to daily in 2013. Flights will operate daily between Abu Dhabi and Ahmedabad, the airline’s ninth destination in India.

James Hogan, Etihad Airways’ President and Chief Executive Officer, said, “We continue to build strength and depth to our global network and the addition of Addis Ababa, a major East African hub, and Ahmedabad, the fifth largest city in India, will make significant contributions to traffic flows to Abu Dhabi and beyond.”

“Addis Ababa and Ahmedabad are economic centres in their respective countries and daily flights to Abu Dhabi will build greater ties with the UAE’s capital as it continues to invest in world-class development projects and attract business and leisure travellers,” he added.

Ethiopia is the largest African market that Etihad Airways is yet to serve and the second most populous country in Africa. It is expected to contribute strong business and leisure traffic within the airline’s network.

There is also a growing Ethiopian population living and working in Abu Dhabi and the UAE which will benefit from the new Abu Dhabi – Addis Ababa service.

Etihad Airways’ new service to Ahmedabad will offer nearly 1,000 seats a week into the Guajarati city and the November 2012 launch will coincide with the beginning of the peak travel season in India.

The airline anticipates strong traffic flows from Ahmedabad to Abu Dhabi and onto its European and US destinations. It also underlines Etihad Airways’ commitment to serve the major population centres across India with direct flights to Abu Dhabi.

The A320 aircraft that will serve Addis Ababa and Ahmedabad have two cabins with 16 Pearl Business Class seats and 120 Coral Economy Class seats.

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May 28, 2012

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By Hassan Ali

Tags: Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Arab, Ethiopia, Etihad Airways, Flights, UAE

mohamed cheers says:

Sounds good business expansion between the UAE and modern Ethiopia. Good for both countries
and perhaps other areas for farther business ventures could be explored to cater for the second most
populous African Countries. Like China and India, the Rich GCC are increasingly showing signs to take part
in the newly emerging markets in the under developed black African continent. The future for the
developing Africa looks bright for the Africans as well as the strong economics of the entire world.
Cheers.

5:38 am on May 28, 2012

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- Gabre says:
  
  what modern Ethiopia dictatorship torturing people in prisons keeping solitory confinement until The person can’t remember his/her name.as long as Ethiopia have one party system nothing will go forward.
  
  5:47 am on May 28, 2012
  
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Joe says:

Most Ethiopians can not afford Etihad Airways and I doubt it will last. Besides Ethiopians are racist they will fly with their injera spelling airliner and on top of that how many Ethiopians live in AD? Not many if any.

This is premature decision on Etihad's behave.

6:56 am on May 28, 2012

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- Abraham says:
  
  Of the many different airlines I travelled with over the years, the Ethiopian airline is actually one of my favourite airlines. They have a very friendly staff.
  
  9:49 am on May 28, 2012
  
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- kaboon says:
  
  i am not sure ethiopians are racist but i don't think they will be able to afford the price and there arent manny of them in abu dubi
  
  10:39 am on May 28, 2012
  
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  - tigre says:
    
    @kabooooooooooooooooooooooooon.
    twenty million ethiopain have no real stable food supply rely on WFD.etihad will go bankrupt over night no passengers.
    
    10:50 am on May 28, 2012
    
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osman5 says:

Ethihad is a state funded company it will put a lot of privately own African airliners out of business.
It will be too late by the time the Africans look after their own people and realize how easy it is to undermine their world trade ability by foreigners.

The corruption infested Ethiopian aviation agency should think twice by letting international state funded companies to operate in Ethiopia without restrictions..

Osman Qaal

2:23 pm on May 28, 2012

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Omer Hussein Dualeh says:

In 9 months time, Hargeisa will be the hub of all these Airlines. Itihad and others will be seen in Egal international Airport. The guy who owns African Express has to wake up now and tie with Somaliland business heavy weight to create a better airline for the Horn.

10:31 pm on May 28, 2012

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