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Ethiopian Launches Flight Services to Bengaluru, India

et-bengaluruEthiopian Airlines launched a passenger flight to Bengaluru, India on 27 October 2019. The capital of the Indian state of Karnataka, Bengaluru is dubbed ‘Silicon Valley of India’ and serves as the center of technology and innovation. Ethiopian now holds four weekly flights ton Bengaluru.

Tewolde GebreMariam, Group CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, Commenting on the launch of the service, remarked “Ethiopian Airlines is a significant player in connecting India and Africa and beyond. The new four weekly flights will connect the important ICT hub city of Bengaluru to the ever-expanding Ethiopian network in addition to our twice daily flights each to the commercial city of Mumbai and the Capital New Delhi. The flights will also complement our existing dedicated freighter flights to/from Bengaluru.

"The addition of Bengaluru to our Indian network will give a wider menu of choices to the fastgrowing air travelers between India and Africa and beyond," he added. "The increasing flight frequencies and the number of gateways in India will facilitate trade, investment and tourism to/from the Indian subcontinent. The schedule is carefully designed to connect passengers efficiently through our global hub in Addis Ababa with short connections and will provide the fastest and the shortest connections between Bengaluru in southern India and more than 60 destinations in Africa and South America.”

Currently, Ethiopian operates passenger flights to Mumbai and New Delhi as well as cargo service to Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Mumbai and New Delhi.


Source (Including Image): Ethiopian Airlines Press Release sent to 2Merkato.com