Aviation Industry Corporation of china is expected to launch expansion construction on the maintenance hangar at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport at an estimated cost of more than 95 million US dollars.
The design for the expansion has been completed and the project is at the soil testing stage at present.
The maintenance hangar will serve to service a range of aircraft from the Ethiopian Airlines fleet including the Dreamliners aircraft, 777 airplanes and 747’s according to Tewolde Gebremariam Chief Executive of the Airline.
In related news Ethiopian Airlines is planning to begin flights to the South Eastern Nigeria city of Enugu. The airline will begin offering flights to this destination as part of its plans to increase its destinations to Africa’s most populous country.The airline has plans to fly to a range of destinations in Nigeria including to the Southern Central Port City Port Harcourt as well as Kano the largest city in Northern Nigeria as well as increasing the number of flights to the capital, Abuja according toTewolde Gebremariam, Chief Executive of Ethiopian.
The airline wants to increase the number of flights to Abuja because the Abuja-Addis-Asia route and the Abuja-Addis-Dubai-Bangkok-China are currently the best flight options for passengers flying to Nigeria he said.
Source: Capital
