ETStar From Canada, joined Jan 2004, 2103 posts, RR: 9 Posted (6 years 10 months 1 week 1 day ago) and read 3513 times:
The next wave of additions to Ethiopian Airlines' schedule have been uploaded, and see the following:
- Lagos: increase to 11x per week with 4 new night time services
- Accra: Increase to 8x per week with 4 new night time services
- Dakar: Increase to 6x per week with 3 new night time services
- Dakar: Increase to 6x per week with 3 new night time services
- N'Djamena: Increase to 5x per week with new night time services and new dedicated daytime services
Ethiopian is not part of an alliance. Its CEO has gone on record stating that ET wishes to be part of an alliance, and appears to be working toward that.
ET currently codeshares with South African Airways on the ADD-JNB route, which is set to be operated daily as of the coming winter.
Soups From Ghana, joined Jun 2004, 3438 posts, RR: 15 Reply 3, posted (6 years 10 months 1 week 20 hours ago) and read 3415 times:
Quoting ETStar (Thread starter): Accra: Increase to 8x per week with 4 new night time services
Why the LONG layover in accra? nice to see ET now makind morning and evening take off from Accra.
There is little demand between ADD and LOS/ACC majority of passengers are actually connecting to JNB, Asia, JED, DXB, BEY....list goes on
Next destinations, Suarabaya, beirut, paris, Accra
Dkny From Ethiopia, joined Mar 2004, 694 posts, RR: 2 Reply 5, posted (6 years 10 months 1 week 19 hours ago) and read 3384 times:
Where are all these planes coming from??? With the long layovers all over west africa for the aircrafts, I wonder how ET is going to pull this one out.
AF022 From France, joined Dec 2003, 2092 posts, RR: 1 Reply 9, posted (6 years 10 months 1 week 5 hours ago) and read 3135 times:
Ethiopian would be a great fit in Star Alliance, no? Star has minimal presence in Africa except for SAA, which is not good for connections to East or Central Africa.
ETStar From Canada, joined Jan 2004, 2103 posts, RR: 9 Reply 11, posted (6 years 10 months 1 week 1 hour ago) and read 3093 times:
Quoting Soups (Reply 3):
Why the LONG layover in accra? nice to see ET now makind morning and evening take off from Accra.
There is little demand between ADD and LOS/ACC majority of passengers are actually connecting to JNB, Asia, JED, DXB, BEY....list goes on
Actually, look closely and you will notice that there is no extra long layover at Accra.
Day flight leaves ADD and does ADD-LFW-ACC-LOS-ADD, with about 6.5 hours at ACC. Night flight leaves ADD and does ADD-LOS-ACC-LFW-ADD with about 4.5 hours at ACC.
Both daytime and night time flights to DKR are intertwined so that there is minimal layover time, which essentially eliminates today's long overnights at DKR and BKO while at the same time increasing capacity to all West African destinations.
DKR flights are operated as either ADD-NDJ-BKO-DKR or ADD-ABJ-BKO-DKR, the former being ET's trademark DKR service (per a decade ago) and the latter giving ABJ its first nonstop from ADD.
Quoting Dkny (Reply 5): Where are all these planes coming from??? With the long layovers all over west africa for the aircrafts, I wonder how ET is going to pull this one out.
The need for additional aircraft may not be necessaryr, as this schedule is optimized with less layover time. As mentioned above, DKR and BKO no longer have aircraft overnighting on the ground, and as Soups mentioned, 4x per week to Gatwick is being pulled, freeing up a 752 on those days. The Gatwick pullout alone makes aircraft available for the overnight roundtrip to LOS/ACC, and more, since the 75s at Gatwick are immobile throughout the day.
BEY is also uncertain, as we all know, and ET had allocated a daily 73W to that great city, albeit all night flights. This type can also be operated to do the roundtrip to NDJ, and is also set for runs to DXB during the day.
AF022 From France, joined Dec 2003, 2092 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (6 years 10 months 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 3035 times:
Quoting ETStar (Reply 11): BEY is also uncertain, as we all know, and ET had allocated a daily 73W to that great city, albeit all night flights. This type can also be operated to do the roundtrip to NDJ, and is also set for runs to DXB during the day.
Is there any information about when ET might get back into BEY? They had really great connections from Johannesburg.
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