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Category Archives: Ethiopian Airlines

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Ethiopian Airlines Suspends Pilots Accused Of Falling Asleep In-Flight

Matthew Klint Posted onAugust 22, 2022August 22, 2022 7 Comments
Ethiopian Airlines Pilots Asleep

Ethiopian Airlines has offered a diplomatic statement that neither confirms nor denies that two of its pilots fell asleep and overshot the runway in Addis Ababa, raising concerns over safety and pilot fatigue. However, the statement does that the...

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Ethiopian Airlines

Misbehave In Lounge? You’ll Lose Your Miles And Elite Status

Matthew Klint Posted onDecember 20, 2021 7 Comments
Ethiopian Airlines Lounge Behavior

Ethiopian Airlines is taking a novel approach to encouraging good behavior in its airport lounge: follow the rules or you’ll lose your miles and your status. Ethiopian Airlines Threatens To Confiscate Miles, Reduce Status For Poor Behavior In Airport...

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Report: Ethiopian Airlines Used As A Tool Of War

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 6, 2021October 6, 2021 5 Comments

Ethiopian Airlines has been accused of transporting weapons from Ethiopia to Eritrea during the civil war in Tigray. The allegations, if proven true, could have devastating commercial ramifications for Africa’s largest and most profitable airline. Ethiopian Airlines Allegedly Used...

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Exclusive: Nigerian Consulate Responds To Ethiopian Airlines Ticket Scalping Incident

Matthew Klint Posted onAugust 19, 2020 12 Comments
Nigerian Consulate Ticket Scalping

The Nigerian Consulate in Atlanta has responded to the Ethiopian Airlines ticket “scalping” incident in Houston, denying wrongdoing and dismissing reports concerning the flight. Nigerian Consulate: No Scalping, No Standbys On Ethiopian Airlines Repatriation Flight From Houston To Lagos....

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Ethiopian Airlines Flight Delayed Eight Hours In Houston While Nigerian Officials Scalp Tickets To Highest Bidders

Matthew Klint Posted onAugust 17, 2020August 19, 2020 83 Comments
Nigerian Scalp Ethiopian Airlines

Nigerians trying to return home encountered a taste of home in Houston after Nigerian officials delayed their Ethiopian Airlines repatriation flight to Lagos for eight hours while trying to scalp every last ticket onboard. Bedlam In Houston As Nigerian...

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Why Does Ethiopian Airlines Want To Invest In South African Airways?

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 7, 2019October 7, 2019 7 Comments
Ethiopian Airlines SAA Investment

Ethiopian Airlines is open to the idea of investing in South African Airways. In fact, it sees it as part of a broader strategy to save aviation in Africa. Not only has South African Airways (SAA) not reported profit...

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Ethiopian Airlines Blasts FAA For Protecting Boeing, May Never Fly 737 Again

Matthew Klint Posted onMay 18, 2019 16 Comments
Ethiopian Airlines FAA Dispute

Ethiopian Airlines is disputing statements from a Federal Aviation Administration official this week, alleging that the FAA is trying to divert blame from Boeing. Ethiopian’s CEO also suggested that his airline is in no rush to resume flying the...

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An Explosive New Theory On The Ethiopian 737 MAX Crash

Matthew Klint Posted onApril 9, 2019April 9, 2019 71 Comments

A new and detailed theory suggests that a potential bird strike plus pilot error, coupled with faulty sensors, resulted in the ET302 crash. I’ve been following the ET302 crash closely as we all try to better understand what happened...

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Ethiopian Lodges Lethal Charge Against Boeing

Matthew Klint Posted onApril 4, 2019April 4, 2019 16 Comments
ET302 Preliminary Report

Ethiopian Airlines has released a preliminary report on the deadly crash of ET 302, placing the blame squarely on Boeing. At a news conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s Minister of Transportation Dagmawit Moges leveled this damning assertion: The crew performed...

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Ethiopian Airlines “Believes In Boeing”

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 26, 2019 5 Comments
Ethiopian CEO Boeing Letter

Ethiopian Airlines’ Chief Executive Officer Tewolde Gebremariam was either unequivocally supportive or a master manipulator of words in recent statements about Boeing. Addressing the two-week mark since the crash of ET 302, Gebremariam stated: Let me be clear: Ethiopian Airlines...

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Ethiopian Captain Never Had 737 MAX Simulator Training

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 21, 2019March 20, 2019 15 Comments

Yared Getachew, the captain onboard doomed Ethiopian Flight 302, never had Boeing 737 Max 8 simulator training, despite Ethiopian Airlines’ acquisition of a simulator months earlier. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, insiders at Ethiopian told the New York...

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Tacky: France Already Using 737 MAX Incident To Undercut Boeing

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 16, 2019March 16, 2019 19 Comments

I get it. All is fair in love and war and it is war between Airbus and Boeing. But I’m not impressed by actions of the French President just days after the horrific Boeing 737 MAX 8 crash that...

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As China Grounds 737 MAX, Safety Questions Abound

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 11, 2019March 11, 2019 7 Comments
737 MAX China Grounding

Tragically, an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX traveling from Addis Ababa to Nairobi crashed shortly after takeoff yesterday. 159 perished and there were no survivors. The second crash of this aircraft variant in a matter of months has left...

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A New Connection From Los Angeles To Africa

Matthew Klint Posted onNovember 1, 2018November 1, 2018 3 Comments
Ethiopian Airlines Los Angeles Lome

Ethiopian Airlines will connect Los Angeles with Lomé, Togo, becoming the first nonstop flight between LAX and the African continent. Last month I wrote about Ethiopian abandoning its Addis Ababa – Dublin – Los Angeles flight. Days after cancelling it,...

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Is Ethiopian Airlines Abandoning LAX?

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 17, 2018October 17, 2018 20 Comments

Here’s a mystery perhaps we can solve together. I book Award Expert clients on Ethiopian Airlines to/from Africa all the time. The airline is very generous in releasing award space and has an unparalleled route network within Africa. It...

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Africa’s Strongest Airline Grows 21% In One Year

Matthew Klint Posted onAugust 15, 2018August 15, 2018 1 Comment

Africa’s largest and most profitable airline transported 21% more passengers this year than last year. And that’s just one measure of the carrier’s rapid growth. The 2017-18 fiscal year just ended for Ethiopian Airlines and the numbers are impressive....

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How Africa’s Largest Airline Exercises Strategic Influence

Matthew Klint Posted onJuly 19, 2018July 19, 2018 5 Comments
Ethiopian Airlines Nigeria Air

We’ve seen many surprises at the Farnborough Airshow this week, including the birth of a new airline. But the politics behind it are even more interesting. Nigeria has struggled to maintain a viable flag carrier over the decades. Nigeria Airways...

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Review: Ethiopian NEW 787 Business Class Addis Ababa to Bangkok

Matthew Klint Posted onDecember 11, 2017June 4, 2020 6 Comments

This review will be shorter than my previous two longhaul Ethiopian Business Class trip reports, focusing primarily on the new 787-8 lie-flat business class seat. Ethiopian Airlines has two different business class seats on its 787-8. Both are configured...

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Review: Ethiopian Airlines Cloud Nine Business Class Lounge Addis Ababa (ADD)

Matthew Klint Posted onDecember 9, 2017June 4, 2020 6 Comments

I returned to Addis Ababa Bole International Airport about 90 minutes before my flight to Bangkok, giving me about 20 minutes in the lounge prior to boarding. As you pass exit immigration and proceed upstairs, you’ll come to a...

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A Guide to Ethiopian Airlines’ Free Transit Hotel

Matthew Klint Posted onDecember 6, 2017December 6, 2017 78 Comments
Ethiopian Airlines Free Transit Hotel

If your layover in Addis Ababa is between 8-24 hours, chances are you can score a free hotel room courtesy of Ethiopian Airlines during your long layover. Not everyone with a transit between 8-24 hours will receive a free...

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