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Ethiopian adds Madagascar and more
Africa’s largest airline group, Ethiopian Airlines, will add Antananarivo, Madagascar to its 95 networks of worldwide destinations by March 28, 2017.
Also within the first half of 2017, Ethiopian announced services to several new destinations, which will be one of the largest expansions in Ethiopian’s history.
In the five months from February to June, Ethiopian will launch new services from its Addis Ababa hub to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo, Guinea’s capital Conarky, Norway’s capital Oslo, Chengdu in China, Indonesia’s capital Jakarta and Singapore.
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.
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