Ethiopian Airlines, the fastest growing and most profitable African airline, colorfully celebrated 55 years of uninterrupted service to Frankfurt, Germany on October 24, 2013.

Ethiopian CEO, Mr. Tewolde Gebremariam, attended the celebrations in Frankfurt along with Dr. Renate Sterzel, City Councilor of Frankfurt, Dr. Stefan Schulte, Chairman of the Executive Board of Fraport AG, Mr. Mark Schwab, CEO of Star Alliance, H.E. Mr. Fesseha Asegedom, Ambassador of Ethiopia to Germany, and Ms. Dennenesh Zewdie, famous Ethiopian actress in Germany. Also present were representatives from the diplomatic community, the African Diaspora and various partners including Lufthansa, travel agencies and tour operators.

During the ceremony, CEO Tewolde made a presentation about the journey of Ethiopian, its long service to Germany and its vision.

"We started our operations to Frankfurt in 1958 with DC-6B aircraft when Ethiopian was just a little over a decade old. Frankfurt is our first European destination and remained on our network uninterrupted for 55 years. Today, it is our main hub for our passenger operations to Europe thanks to our longstanding and mutually beneficial partnership with Lufthansa, and our membership in the Star Alliance. We now have daily flights to Frankfurt with the latest technology aircraft, the 787 Dreamliner, which we were the first to introduce to this destination. I would like to express my gratitude to all our partners, especially Fraport, Lufthansa and Star Alliance, for their continued support, and look forward to many more decades of successful partnership thanks to the rise of Africa as the last frontier of globalization and the bright future of air travel between Africa and the rest of the world ," said CEO Tewolde Gebremariam.

Ethiopian currently operates to 46 African and 76 international destinations across five continents.

Source: Ethiopian Airlines Press Release