Ethiopian Returns To New York

    NEW YORK, NY, July 09, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Ethiopian Airlines, the fastest growing airline in Africa, is back in the Big Apple after 14 years having commenced thrice weekly service on July 3, 2016 to New York-Newark from Addis Ababa via Lome, Togo.

Ethiopian deployed the modern Boeing 787 Dreamliner on this route, which not only offers unparalleled onboard comfort to passengers, but is also the world's most environmentally friendly aircraft with its lower carbon and noise emissions. Ethiopian's Boeing 787 Dreamliner is configured with 24 business class and 246 economy seats, all of which are equipped with Ethiopian's renowned audio-visual inflight entertainment consoles. This new service enables passengers to connect between New York -Newark and many cities throughout Africa. At Lome, passengers enjoy seamless connections to/from points in West Africa with ASKY, Ethiopian partner airline based in Lome. Connections are available to/from Abidjan, Bamako, Bissau, Brazzaville, Conakry, Dakar, Douala, Kinshasa, Lagos, Libreville, N'djamena, Niamey, Ouagadougou and Yaounde.

At Addis Ababa, passengers will be enjoying seamless connections to/from points in East and Southern Africa, including Nairobi, Dares Salaam, Khartoum, Kampala, Kigali, and Johannesburg.

Group CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, Mr. Tewolde GebreMariam, remarked, "We are thrilled to resume our service to New York, our fifth gateway in the Americas. New York is one of the world's most economically powerful cities and including it in our ever expanding network will play a critical role in the expansion of trade, tourism and investment between the fast growing continent of Africa and the United States. I would like to thank all who strived hard to make the route possible."

New York-Newark is Ethiopian's 93rd international gateway and 4th gateway in North America. Ethiopian currently operates daily nonstop flights from Washington, DC to Addis Ababa, as well as three weekly nonstop flights from Toronto to Addis Ababa and three weekly flights from Los Angeles to Addis Ababa via Dublin. Ethiopian is expanding its network rapidly and in the past year has introduced services to Tokyo, Manila, Dublin, Los Angeles, Cape Town, Durban, Gaborone, Yaounde, and Goma.

About Ethiopian

Ethiopian Airlines (Ethiopian) is the fastest growing Airline in Africa. In its seven decades of operations, Ethiopian has become one of the continent's leading carriers, unrivalled in efficiency and operational success.

Ethiopian commands the lion's share of the pan-African passenger and cargo network operating the youngest and most modern fleet to 92 international destinations across five continents. Ethiopian fleet includes ultra-modern and environmentally friendly aircraft such as the Boeing 787, Boeing 777-300ER, Boeing 777-200LR, Boeing 777-200 Freighter, Bombardier Q-400 double cabin with an average fleet age of five years. In fact, Ethiopian is the first airline in Africa to own and operate these aircraft.

Ethiopian is currently implementing a 15-year strategic plan called Vision 2025 that will see it become the leading aviation group in Africa with seven business centers: Ethiopian Domestic and Regional Airline; Ethiopian International Passenger Airline; Ethiopian Cargo; Ethiopian MRO; Ethiopian Aviation Academy; Ethiopian In-flight Catering Services; and Ethiopian Ground Service. Ethiopian is a multiaward winning airline registering an average growth of 25% in the past seven years.

For more information about this press release, please contact [email protected] or:
Mrs. Hanna Atnafu
Manager Corporate Communications
Ethiopian Airlines
Tel: (251-1) 517-89-07/656/165/913/529
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