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Ethiopian Airlines, the largest network operating carrier in Africa, announced in a press release sent to 2merkato.com the resumption of its direct flights between Abidjan and New York John F. Kennedy Airport. The flights will resume as of 29 May 2023. Ethiopian first started serving New York from its main hub Addis Ababa via Abidjan in June 2019. However, the route was suspended in March 2020 due to COVID-19. Later, the flight resumed serving New York via Lomé starting in October 2020.

Ethiopian Airlines, the largest airline in Africa, announcee that it would resume its services to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as of 25 March 2023. The flight will be operated four times a week with the ultramodern B787 Dreamliner.

Ethiopia’s flag carrier, Ethiopian Airlines, announced it had begun to send its technicians to other African countries.

According to Zemen Nega, Managing Director of the Airlines’ maintenance, repair and overhaul center, the technicians will be sent to Malawi, Rwanda, Cameroon and other African countries.

Ethiopian Airlines, Ethiopia’s flag carrier, along side Kenyan Airlines is to sign an agreement South Sudan to provide postal services according to an official source.

The contracts with Ethiopian and Kenyan airlines will be signed in the near future according to Juma Stephen, Under-Secretary with the South Sudanese Ministry of Telecommunications and Postal Services.

The templates for the contracts are already in place and the signing can happen in a month’s time he said.

Ethiopian Airlines announced that it will start code sharing with Singapore Airlines as of November 01, 2011. This agreement allows the two carriers to provide joint flight services between Addis Ababa and Singapore through Dubai.

Ethiopian Airlines further announced that the tickets for the code share flight will be available for sale immediately. The agreement between the two international carriers allows passengers to have wider range of flight services between Africa and Asia.