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Eritrean authorities have suspended all flights by Ethiopian Airlines to the East African nation effective Sept. 30, the airline said on Wednesday. Flights from Ethiopia to Eritrea had resumed in ...
The airline's hub is located at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. [5] Following is a list of Ethiopian Airlines' scheduled destinations. Each destination in the list below is provided with the country name, the name of the airport served, and whether it is served by passenger aircraft, cargo aircraft, or both.
The new airline's maiden flight to Nairobi carried a shipment of East African currency equivalent to US$3.7 million in February 1946, [48] but the first revenue scheduled service was on 8 April 1946; [45] [46] it travelled the Addis Ababa–Asmara–Cairo route using one of five Douglas C-47 Skytrains acquired from the US Government.
In December 2024, it was reported that Ethiopia will be constructing a new airport worth US$6 billion near its capital Addis Ababa. The airport will be Africa's largest and busiest airport and is designed to serve 100 million passengers annually.
In 1960, Ethiopian Airlines realized the runway at Lideta was too short for its new jet aircraft, the Boeing 720. Thus a new airport was built at Bole. [5] By December 1962 the new runway and control tower were operational. In 1997, an expansion plan was announced for the airport. [6] This expansion was done in three phases:
On 22 August 1982, a Douglas DC-3 ET-AHP of Ethiopian Airlines was damaged beyond repair in a take-off accident. [7] On 18 January 2024, an Ethiopian Airlines Dash-8 crash-landed at the airport, with its left main landing gear collapsing and the left engine prop striking the runway. [8] [9]
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 was an international commercial flight scheduled from Beirut to Addis Ababa that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff from Rafic Hariri International Airport on 25 January 2010, killing all 90 people on board.
Formerly the main air hub (created by the Italians in 1936 with the name Ivo Oliveti aeroporto) for the Addis Ababa area, in 1960, Ethiopian Airlines realised the runway at Lideta was too short for its new jet aircraft, the Boeing 720. Thus a new airport was built at Bole and Lideta was converted to function solely for Ethiopian military ...