ETStar From Canada, joined Jan 2004, 2103 posts, RR: 9 Posted (7 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 5090 times:
Great news! Ethiopian is introducing Brussels in Belgium, Libreville in Gabon, Juba in Sudan, AND Dakar, Sénégal taking effect in the summer. Also many increases in service including Amsterdam, Stockholm, London Gatwick, Johannesburg, Mumbai, Delhi, Beijing, Khartoum, Cairo, Lusaka!
AIR MALTA From Malta, joined Sep 2001, 2361 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (7 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 4991 times:
Quoting ETStar (Thread starter): Great news! Ethiopian is introducing Brussels in Belgium, Libreville in Gabon, Juba in Sudan, AND Dakar, Sénégal taking effect in the summer.
Is there a merket to Senegal?? Well if there is a market there, there should be one in Tunis...
AirGabon From Switzerland, joined Dec 2003, 852 posts, RR: 3 Reply 3, posted (7 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 4960 times:
Quoting AIR MALTA (Reply 2): Is there a merket to Senegal?? Well if there is a market there, there should be one in Tunis...
Of course there is a market to Senegal. Look over the fast growing expension of Air Senegal International to West Africa and in a near future to Central Africa.
Also, look at the 120% increase in one year of Royal Air Maroc traffic to Africa.
And there is definitively a huge demand between East and West Africa but there is still a lack of offer (just Kenya Airways and Ethiopian), in particular since the disappearance of Air Afrique, Cameroon Airlines and Air Gabon.
More and more people want to connect to Middle-East / Asia through Nairobi or Addis Abeba.
BrightCedars From Belgium, joined Nov 2004, 1271 posts, RR: 2 Reply 4, posted (7 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 4915 times:
Read this about Brussels and it's great news! It may be in codeshare with SNBA which is even better. SNBA will now codeshare on 2 African "hubs" with Air Senegal Int'l and Ethiopian.
Maybe a chance for a 787 at BRU in a few years' time!
ETStar From Canada, joined Jan 2004, 2103 posts, RR: 9 Reply 6, posted (7 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 4453 times:
Quoting RAFVC10 (Reply 5): Will I ever see an ET plane doing regular services from Spain to Ethiopia????
Doubt it, especially in the near future. There is not much Spain-Ethiopia trade going on, and Spain mostly has ties to Northern Africa countries... Ethiopian used to fly to Madrid in the 60s or 70s however, which I think was only because of the ties between Ethiopia's Emperor and the rulers of Spain.
AF022 From France, joined Dec 2003, 2080 posts, RR: 1 Reply 7, posted (7 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 4428 times:
Juba? What's a Juba?
I think it is great that ET is expanding. Their service is great. Hopefully they will upgrade some of their aircraft soon. Some of those 757s are clunkers.
ETStar From Canada, joined Jan 2004, 2103 posts, RR: 9 Reply 8, posted (7 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 4375 times:
Quoting AF022 (Reply 7): I think it is great that ET is expanding. Their service is great. Hopefully they will upgrade some of their aircraft soon. Some of those 757s are clunkers.
MSYYZ From Canada, joined Oct 2005, 846 posts, RR: 9 Reply 9, posted (7 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 4307 times:
Hi ET Star , the link you provided needed a microscope to decipher the writing . Could you please tell me how many flights a week will CAI and JNB will get ?
Thanks in advance..
ETStar From Canada, joined Jan 2004, 2103 posts, RR: 9 Reply 10, posted (7 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 4256 times:
Quoting MSYYZ (Reply 9): Hi ET Star , the link you provided needed a microscope to decipher the writing Smile . Could you please tell me how many flights a week will CAI and JNB will get ?
MSYYZ,
Jo'burg will be upped to 5x per week from current 4x, and Cairo will go up to a total of 7 flights per week, 3x at night, 4x during the day (the latter being via Khartoum)
Stirling From Italy, joined Jun 2004, 3943 posts, RR: 27 Reply 11, posted (7 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 4213 times:
Quoting AF022 (Reply 7): Some of those 757s are clunkers.
This is opinion, right?
What is the basis for such an irresponsible remark?
Because the fact is Ethiopian aircraft are some of the best maintained aircraft not only in Africa, but worldwide.
AF022 From France, joined Dec 2003, 2080 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (7 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 4206 times:
Touchy, aren't we?
I've been on a couple of 757 flights and the planes were OLD. OLD OLD OLD. And not very nice.
I've heard they have newer ones. Hopefully the old ones will be sent to the scrapheap or sold or something.
ETStar From Canada, joined Jan 2004, 2103 posts, RR: 9 Reply 13, posted (7 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 4177 times:
Quoting AF022 (Reply 12): I've been on a couple of 757 flights and the planes were OLD. OLD OLD OLD. And not very nice.
Hehhehe ... The last two 757s I was on actually looked pretty good, fitted with light gray interiors. Of course, they still are from the late 80s/early 90s and don't have PTVs. Kinda like flying AA or US 757s.
I also wish to say that the old dark interiors of Ethiopian's fleet did not do justice to the aircraft.
Abrelosojos From Venezuela, joined May 2005, 4915 posts, RR: 55 Reply 16, posted (7 years 3 months 2 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 3900 times:
Quoting Centrair (Reply 1): How is their service anyway? Anyone flown them?
= ET service is great. Significantly better than many Western carriers and probably on par with the second ring Asian carriers (KE, CI). Great cabin crew and renovations in ADD make it a good alternative transit point.
Quoting AF022 (Reply 12): I've been on a couple of 757 flights and the planes were OLD. OLD OLD OLD. And not very nice.
I've heard they have newer ones.
= I felt their 752s were better maintained than most Americans and some United.
Timboflier215 From United Kingdom, joined May 2005, 1236 posts, RR: 1 Reply 17, posted (7 years 3 months 2 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 3838 times:
well, DO they have any plans for fleet renewal of any sort?? would be cool to see them get some newer aircraft, thought i have no idea if they could afford it?
Dkny From Ethiopia, joined Mar 2004, 690 posts, RR: 2 Reply 19, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 3624 times:
Great to see new destinations for ET. Still no news on the much talked about ADD-ACC-NYC flight.
Surprised to see Dakar going daily at once.
Looks like all flights leaving ADD will end by midnight everyday.
ETStar From Canada, joined Jan 2004, 2103 posts, RR: 9 Reply 20, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 3475 times:
Quoting Dkny (Reply 19): Great to see new destinations for ET. Still no news on the much talked about ADD-ACC-NYC flight.
Surprised to see Dakar going daily at once.
Looks like all flights leaving ADD will end by midnight everyday.
Yeah, ADD-ACC-NYC still not set for the near future. Thinking of that one, it would be of more benefit to West African pax, as opposed to those from the east since one can get to NYC much quickly by transiting at a European city. Or in the future, when/if ET goes nonstop to IAD.
Dakar also suprised me, since this is the biggest launch to any city for ET in terms of frequency. It is a milk-run route however, with 2 stops along the way (NDJ/BKO or LFW/ABJ), but what it does is link all of those francophone countries, and makes use of aircraft instead of having them sit around all night at BKO or ABJ. Come to think of it, these days, ABJ is risky. Would have loved to see nonstop BKO however, and a roundtrip daytime to NDJ. LFW could also be done roundtrip daytime, while ABJ is a bit of a stretch (ACC is currently the farthest city with a roundtrip daytime service: ie leave ADD in the morning after Asia/Europe arrivals, return to ADD in time for Asia/Europe departures).
Speaking of daytime roundtrips, ET has come a long way and well implemented this on most of its African routes. What this means is that aircraft would not go and hang around all night, an can be used on multiple flights. Remember the old days, where a 737 would get to DAR in mid afternoon, and not depart until 6AM the next day? What these roundtrips also do is allow for the same crew to leave and return to ADD on the same day. I was looking at the departure/arrival hours, and it does conform to the max 12 hr duty, 8 hour flying times set by the FAA under normal ops. Whether or not ET does it I do not know - DNKY/ET787, any way to find out whether the same set of crew operate outbound/inbound flights? There are also a few neat night time roundtrips, such as BEY, CAI, JED.
En plus, the late night bank will be more streamlined, as currently asian flights leave much later than the initial arrivals into ADD, as they have to wait for arriving flights from West Africa. With the new schedule, the latest in the bank leaves at 12:10 to JED, while the earliest arrivals are around 8:20PM. Gotta love that double daily to Dubai, with just 20 minutes in between. It's cool I guess, as if demand is low on a particular day, they could merge the two into one flight (they kinda do that now, by extending the second DXB flight to BOM on certain days).
It was nice seeing that ET signed up with Sabre for its passenger management system, which includes online booking, e-ticketing (time ticking on this one) and code-sharing (hmmm anything coming?). That announcement said that it was making such procurement ahead of a 5-year growth spurt, which has me wondering what else is in store! While I do not expect anything like the 20-something city list that Turkish Airlines announced in one shot, this would definitely have me drooling over schedules.
27 AF022: I have no idea what is going on with cameroon airlines, but years ago they used to load lots and lots and lots of traffic from DKR that was only goin
28 Horus: Excellent news. The ADD-CAI timetable is fine, but on the return (CAI-ADD) on Wed, Thur and Sun there are 2 flights leaving to ADD within 12 hours. I
29 ETStar: Yes. Definitely exciting to see the increase in freq to CAI. While the nonstops connect to/from the African flights, the one-stop connects CAI with K
30 Ethiopian787: Hi Dkny & ETStar I have heard that ET is actively looking to lease a Boeing 777-200ER or a Boeing 767-300ER neither of which are available in the leas
31 ETAIZ: Ethiopian787, is there any news about the acquisition or reconfiguration of the B757s to freighters since the demand has increased and also due to th
32 Dkny: Selam Ethiopian787. Thank you for the update on the aicraft and route matters. So ADD-ACC-IAD or ADD-DKR-IAD will be in addition to the exsiting ADD-F
33 Ethiopian787: Hi!! ET-AIZ I think ET still wants to convert one or two of its pax 757s. The problem is, first everybody is experienecing aircraft shortage (please n
34 AF022: I had heard that ET was one of many foreign flags that couldn't make an intermediate domestic stop work with the new hysterical post-9/11 regulations
36 ETStar: I can attest to that. And it sucked big time! It was an early arrival at EWR, which made immigration/customs somewhat bearable, but what happened was
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