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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.

Ethiopian Airlines, the largest, fastest growing and most profitable airline in Africa, is pleased to announce that it has won CAPA Airline of the Year Award, one of the top airline awards, at the 2015 CAPA Aviation Awards for Excellence, held on 7 October, 2015 in Helsinki as part of CAPA’s 2015 World Aviation Summit.

Ethiopian Airlines, Ethiopia’s flag carrier, won the Gold Award in the African Airline of the Year 2011/12 Award organized by the African Aviation News Portal.

The team at Ethiopian Airlines is pleased by the vote of confidence establishing its services as the leading airline on the African continent said Tewolde Gebremariam, Chief Executive Officer of the airline, in response to the award announcement.

Ethiopian Airlines received a majority of the votes cast by readers and fans of African Aviation to become the clear winner according to a statement issued by the airline.