Ethiopian Airlines’ management team is aiming to start a new flight to the Los Angeles, U.S. The Airlines is planning to make this trek via Ireland’s capital, Dublin and if everything goes to plan the flight will be launch the coming year.
Currently the Airline makes a daily flight between Addis Ababa and Washington. Thus when it starts flying to Los Angeles that will be it’s second destination in the U.S.
According to the CEO of Ethiopian, Tewolde Gebremariam, the management team is planning to commence flying to Los Angeles via Dublin. He furthered, since the flight is going to be long it has been decided there needs to be a stopover and Dublin has been chosen to be the stopover. In addition to this he stated, the Airlines has secured a traffic right from the Ireland Civil Aviation Authority.
Ethiopian’s network rout has been growing and it has reached 80 across five continents. According to The Reporter, Ethiopian has recently added Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Vienna to its routes.
In another news, announcement to the bid of 20 narrow aircraft will be made by Ethiopian.
According to The Reporter the Airlines issued a request for proposal (RFP) in January and invited companies. This was followed by a reply from six different companies; Mitsubishi, Ilyshin, Embraer, Bomardier, Airbus and Boeing.
The proposals the companies presented included regional jets with seats from 80 to 12. Ethiopian on its part could buy up to 20 of these aircrafts for regional routes purpose.
Commenting on the bid process, Tewolde said, the technical committee of the Airlines’ is evaluating the proposals and the result will be announced in the coming month.
According to The Reporter the Mitsubishi presented its MRJ jets while the Russian company, IIyshin, proposed Sukhoi 100 aircraft. On the other hand E-Jets were proposed by Embraer, the Brazilian manufacturer and Bombardier presented C-series aircraft. Airbus and Boeing on their part presented A320NEO and B737 MAX aircraft respectively.
Source: The Reporter
