Ethiopian Airlines

Ethiopian Airlines የኢትዮጵያ አየር መንገድ
IATA code :	ET
ICAO code :	ETH
Call sign :	ETHIOPIAN
Founding:	1945
Seat:	Addis Ababa , Ethiopia
Turnstile :	Addis Ababa
Home airport :	Addis Ababa
Company form:	State property
IATA prefix code :	071
Management:	Tewolde GebreMariam ( CEO )
Number of employees:	7,801
Sales:	US $ 2.1 billion (2014)
Passenger volume:	11.0 million (2017)
Alliance :	Star Alliance
Frequent Flyer Program :	ShebaMiles
Fleet size:	121 (+ 42 orders)
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.ethiopianairlines.com

Ethiopian Airlines ( Amharic የኢትዮጵያ አየር መንገድ ) until 1965 Ethiopian Air Lines , is the national airline of Ethiopia , located in Addis Ababa and based on the Addis Ababa airport , and a member of the airline alliance Star Alliance . With 11 million passengers per year (as of 2017), it is the largest airline in Africa .

history

An Ethiopian DC-3 in Lalibela 1974

Ethiopian Air Lines was founded on December 21, 1945 with the help of the US TWA . Operations began on April 8, 1946 with a weekly flight between Addis Ababa and Cairo with a Douglas DC-3 . On August 20, 1965, the name was changed to Ethiopian Airlines .

The airline is often described as "one of the most reliable and profitable airlines in the third world " because, among other things, it operates a comparatively modern fleet and offers upscale services such as its own frequent flyer program.

On 18 February 2009 Ethiopian Airlines announced for membership in the international airline alliance Star Alliance , at among others , Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines to participate to have applied. Joining the Star Alliance was confirmed in September 2010 and finally took place on December 13, 2011.

On November 17, 2010, Ethiopian Airlines took delivery of its first Boeing 777-200LR , at the same time the 900th Boeing 777 delivered. On August 14, 2012, Ethiopian Airlines was the first African airline to receive its first Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner . It received the tenth 787 on October 3, 2014. This makes Ethiopian Airlines the largest operator of this type in Africa.

In December 2017, Ethiopian Airlines launched a mobile app . Today it can be used for booking, paying, checking in, saving the boarding pass and self-boarding.

Holdings

In 2018, Ethiopian received the rights to offer national flights in Mozambique with its own offshoot . Ethiopian Mozambique Airlines was founded for this purpose . In addition, Ethiopian Airlines has held a 20 percent stake in Eritrean Airlines since mid-2018 and was commissioned to set up a new national airline for Chad , Tchadia Airlines .

Ethiopian Mozambique Airlines

Ethiopian Airlines plans to initially use two Boeing 737-800s at its Mozambican subsidiary (as of November 2018). Initially from December 2018 ^[obsolete] 42 weekly flights are planned to Nampula , Pemba via Nampula, Tete via Beira , Nacala , Pemba and Tete.

Ethiopian in Malawi

Ethiopian Airlines has a 49% stake in Malawian Airlines .

Ethiopian in Chad

Ethiopian Airlines has a 49% stake in Tchadia Airlines .

Ethiopian in Togo

Ethiopian Airlines has a 25% stake in Asky Airlines .

Ethiopian in Ghana

Ethiopian Airlines has been involved in setting up a new flag carrier for Ghana since December 6, 2018 . Flight operations are scheduled to begin in 2019, initially with four aircraft on regional connections. Ethiopian Airlines should own up to 49 percent of the shares.

Destinations

Ethiopian Airlines destinations

Ethiopian Airlines flies from Addis Ababa to international destinations in addition to African destinations in Europe , Asia , America and the Middle East . Frankfurt am Main and Vienna are currently the only destinations in German-speaking countries .

Since January 2018, Ethiopian Airlines has been allowed to offer direct flights from the Ivory Coast to the United States . The basis is an aviation agreement between the states.

The company also has codeshare agreements with South African Airways , Lufthansa , TAAG Angola Airlines , Gulf Air , Brussels Airlines and Saudi Arabian Airlines, among others .

fleet

Current fleet

Boeing 737-800 of the Ethiopian

Boeing 757-200 of the Ethiopian

Boeing 767-300ER of Ethiopian Airlines

Boeing 787-8 of the Ethiopian

As of August 2020, the Ethiopian Airlines fleet consists of 121 aircraft with an average age of 6.7 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats ( Business / Economy )	Average age (April 2020)
Airbus A350-900	14th	10		348 (30/318)	2.5 years
Boeing 737-700	07th		with winglets ; one operated for Malawi Airlines ; two operated for Asky Airlines	118 (16/102)	15.5 years
Boeing 737-800	18th		with winglets; one operated for Asky Airlines	154 (16/138)	9.9 years
Boeing 737-800SF	02		Cargo planes	Cargo
Boeing 737 MAX 8	04th	25th	first delivery on July 2, 2018, all inactive since March 11, 2019	160 (16/144)	2.0 years
Boeing 767-300ER	04th		2 with winglets; 1 operated for the United Nations Humanitarian Aviation Service	223 (24/199)	17.2 years
Boeing 777-200LR	06th			321 (34/287)	9.1 years
Boeing 777-300ER	04th			399 (34/365)	6.0 years
Boeing 777F	09		Cargo planes	Cargo	4.3 years
Boeing 787-8	19th		one inactive	270 (24/246)	5.8 years
Boeing 787-9	07th	1		313 (30/283)	1.7 years
De Havilland DHC-8-400	27	6th	one each operated for Malawian Airlines and AskyAirlines; two operated for Tchadia Airlines	78 (- / 78) 71 (7/64)	5.9 years
total	121	42			6.7 years

Former aircraft types

A Convair CV-240 of the Ethiopian in Dire Dawa 1960

A Douglas DC-6 of the Ethiopian in Frankfurt 1967

Before that, Ethiopian Airlines also operated the following types of aircraft:

• ATR-42
• Beechcraft Model 18
• Boeing 707
• Boeing 720
• Boeing 727
• Boeing 737 -200, -400
• Boeing 757-200
• Boeing 767-200
• Cessna 172
• Cessna 182
• Cessna 206
• Convair CV-240
• De Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo
• De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
• Douglas DC-3
• Douglas DC-6
• Fokker 50
• Lockheed L-749A Constellation
• Lockheed Hercules
• McDonnell Douglas MD-11
• Piper Aztec
• Piper Seneca

Incidents

An identical Boeing 720 , 1983, which crashed in 1968

A Lockheed Hercules , identical to the one that crashed in 1991 , in 2003

The Boeing 767 ET-AIZ crashed in 1996 , 1993

From 1948 to March 15, 2019, Ethiopian Airlines suffered 42 total aircraft losses. In 20 of them, 477 people were killed. Examples:

• On January 9, 1968, a Boeing 720 from Ethiopian Airlines ( aircraft registration number ET-AAG) , which was leased from Middle East Airlines , landed hard on the nose landing gear at Beirut Airport . There was heavy rain and wind gusts of up to 45 knots. The nose landing gear collapsed; there was a fire which ultimately destroyed the machine. All 49 inmates were unharmed.

• On December 8, 1972, shortly after the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 720-060B (aircraft registration number unknown) took off from Addis Ababa Airport, seven hijackers from Eritrea tried to bring the plane under their control. There was an exchange of fire with the six flight safety attendants present on board the machine, whereupon one of the hijackers threw a hand grenade into the passenger cabin, which exploded at 29,000 feet (8,839 meters). The heavily damaged machine could be flown back to Addis Ababa safely, except for the seven kidnappers killed in the exchange of fire, there were no dead on board (see also Ethiopian Airlines flight 708 ) .

• On November 19, 1977, a crashed Boeing 707-360C Ethiopian Airlines (ET-ACD) into a cargo flight from shortly after the start Rome Fiumicino Airport to Asmara from. The machine hardly gained any height after takeoff, brushed the treetops and went down. All five crew members on board were killed (see also the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 707 in Rome ) .

• On September 15, 1988, a Boeing 737-200 (ET-AJA) was taking off at Bahir Dar airport when a few pigeons were sucked into both engines. Both engines lost thrust due to the bird strike . The cockpit crew still managed to make an emergency landing near the airport, in which, however, 35 of the 98 passengers were killed (see also Ethiopian Airlines flight 604 ) .

• On September 17, 1991, a Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules operated by Ethiopian Airlines (ET-AJL) was flown into Mount Arey on its return to Djibouti Airport . The flight to Dire Dawa was canceled due to problems with the nose landing gear . All 4 crew members were killed.

• On November 23, 1996, three men hijacked a Boeing 767-200ER (ET-AIZ) en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi , Kenya, and told the pilots to fly to Australia instead . They did not believe the captain's assurances that the aircraft did not have enough kerosene on board for such a flight. The captain turned away unnoticed and headed for the Comoros . Lack of fuel, the pilots carried out a ditching prior Grande Comore through. The plane overturned and 125 of the 175 occupants perished. The emergency landing was recorded on video by tourists on the beach (see also Ethiopian Airlines flight 961 ) .

• On January 25, 2010, a Boeing 737-800 (ET-ANB) crashed into the Mediterranean Sea five minutes after taking off from Beirut Airport . All 82 passengers and 8 crew members on board the machine died. In the final report of the Lebanese Civil Aviation Authority, pilot errors due to chronic fatigue are named as the likely cause of the crash (see also Ethiopian Airlines flight 409 ) .

• On February 17, 2014, on a flight from Addis Ababa to Rome, the first officer hijacked a Boeing 767-300 (ET-AMF) after the captain went to the bathroom. He then flew the plane to Geneva to apply for political asylum there. While he was on hold, he threatened to crash the plane if the captain didn't stop breaking open the cockpit door. When landing, there was only fuel on board for a few flight minutes. Swiss authorities later determined that the first officer incapable of discernment was (see also Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702 ) .

• On January 10, 2015, a Boeing 737-400F with the registration number ET-AQV crashed on Ethiopian Airlines flight 4030 while landing at Accra Airport . All three crew members survived the crash.

• On March 10, 2019, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 with the registration number ET-AVJ , which was only delivered at the end of 2018, crashed with 149 passengers and eight crew members on the flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi . Radio contact was lost about six minutes after take-off, around 5:40 a.m. (CET). The crash site is near Debre Zeyit , about 35 km east of Addis Ababa. All 157 people on board died. The final report by the Ethiopian Accident Investigation Bureau dated March 9, 2020 sees the cause of the crash in design flaws in the 737 MAX 8 and the MCAS system for which Boeing is responsible. In addition, training in the flight simulator should have taken place for this system. After Lion Air flight 610, this was the second crash of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 within a few months (see also Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 ) .

• On July 22, 2020, a Boeing 777F (ET-ARH) caught fire during the loading process at Shanghai Pudong International Airport . The six-year-old machine suffered a total loss . Nobody was injured in the incident. The cause of the fire is still being investigated.

Trivia

Ethiopian Airlines is one of the few airlines in the world whose IATA code ( ET for Ethiopian Airlines) is identical to the country code in the aircraft registration number ( ET for Ethiopia).

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Ethiopian Airlines  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ethiopian Airlines website

Individual evidence

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