Ethiopian Airlines to step up expansion with more deals and jets
An Ethiopian Airlines Dreamliner at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi. The State-owned carrier plans to become Africa’s biggest airline by 2025. FILE PHOTO | NATION
Even by its own standards, Ethiopian Airlines’ recent growth has been fast — so fast that it revised the ambitious 15-year strategy set in 2010 and plans to buy more planes to step up its expansion.
Its plan had been to more than double its fleet to 120 and become Africa’s biggest airline by 2025, but it already has 100 planes flying to dozens of destinations from Asia to South America, including four US cities.
