Ethiopian Airlines, Ethiopia’s flag carrier, announced that it has taken charge of the Boeing 737-800 Sky Interior Aircraft
ordered in December 2009.
The company is focused on investing in modernizing its fleet and the new 737-800 Sky Interior aircraft built with high technology to provide customers with the comfort and style to enhance the air travel experience according to Tewolde Gebre-mariam, Chief Executive of Ethiopian Airlines.
The airline expects to deploy the new Sky Interior to East African tourist destinations such as Daressalam, Mombassa, Seychelles during day flights and Delhi, Bombay, Dubai and Kuwait at night.
The 737 offers unique features such as innovative overhead bins to hold more bags, sculpted sidewalls, and updated windows. The aircraft also sports brighter and longer lasting LED lighting systems designed to create a soothing effect to passengers. Switches, call buttons and speakers are intuitively placed above every row of seats to improve sound quality and enhance the customer’s comfort.It is to be remembered that Ethiopian Airlines trained eight pilots to operate the 787 Dreamliner at the Boeing Flight Services campus at Gatwick, London. The airline is training additional batches of trainees to qualify for the Dreamliner at the same facility.
Ethiopian Airlines pilots are the first African pilots to qualify to fly the Dreamliner making this a milestone in the history of the airline said Capitan Desta Zeru, Senior Vice President of Flight Operations with Ethiopian.
Source: The Reporter
