Ethiopian Airlines Group has celebrated the arrival of its second Airbus A350-1000, registered as ET-BAX. This addition reinforces Ethiopian Airlines’ standing as Africa’s leading airline. The A350-1000, part of a four-aircraft order, was first introduced to the fleet in November 2024, making Ethiopian Airlines the first African operator of this aircraft.
Ethiopian Airlines wins the prestigious African Champion of the Year Award on March 26, 2019 at the ongoing Africa CEO Forum in Kigali. The forum is being attended by more than 1,800 delegates.
Ethiopian Airlines has been recognized as the ‘African Airline of the Year’ by the African Travel Quarterly magazine it 
announced.
The airline received the award at an event held in Lagos, Nigeria during the Akwaaba: African Travel Market Exhibition.
Ethiopian Airlines was recognized for the excellence of its service and its pioneering acts in the aviation industry in Africa as evidenced by its introduction of the continents first 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
The airline has managed to bridge the continent and made Africa proud in the past year through its efforts to open new routes and facilitating integration regionally and continentally according to the organizers of the award ceremony.
Nigeria selected Ethiopian Airlines (ET) to become Nigeria Air’s technical partner after ET came out as a winner of the technical bidding process and financial bids by scoring 89/100 and 15/20, respectively.
ET is expected to provide equipment and funds to Nigeria Air. However, according to THISDAY, a Nigerian newspaper, Ethiopian would provide equipment, technical personnel, and management for Nigeria Air but not funds.
Ethiopian Airlines, Ethiopia’s flag carrier, has won the “The Annual Airline Reliability Performance Award” from Bombardier Aerospace, for the second time in a row.
The airline earned the highest total dispatch reliability to place first overall in the Q-400 product category for the African and Middle Eastern Region.
The award was received by Mesin Tassew, Chief Operating Officer of Ethiopian at the annual Airline Reliability Performance Awards Gala dinner which was held in Florida, USA on the 30th of April.
