Tag: Ethiopian Airline
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Ghost of botched Nigeria Air deal haunts Aviation Ministry
Dr. Ibrahim Abubakar Kana, the new Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development has denied there is a mandate to revive the botched Nigeria Air deal with Ethiopian airline.
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REVEALED: Why Nigeria Air aircraft was chartered from Ethiopian airline
Capt. Dapo Olumide, the acting Managing Director of the Nigeria Air, says the aircraft that flew in with the logo of the airline was chartered from the Ethiopian Airline for the purpose of unveiling the logo. Olumide said this on Tuesday in Abuja, when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Aviation.
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Senate seeks ban on Ethiopian airline
The Senate on Friday urged the Federal Government to place a temporary ban on Ethiopian airline flights to curb further spread of Coronavirus (Covid-19) to Nigeria. The call, according to the Chairman Senate Committee on Primary Healthcare and Communicable Diseases, Senator Chukwuka Utazi, became necessary because the airline operates flights between China and Nigeria for…
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Ethiopia crash: France commences Boeing black box data review
Investigators in France on Friday examined the black boxes of a Boeing 737 Max that crashed in Ethiopia as a spooked global airline industry waited to see if the cause was similar to the disaster in Indonesia months before. Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crashed soon after take-off from Addis Ababa last weekend, killing all 157…
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Air crash: Ethiopian Airlines opens condolence registers in Nigeria
The Management of Ethiopian Airlines in Nigeria has opened Condolence Registers at their country offices in Abuja, Lagos, Kano and Enugu for the victims of the flight that crashed on March 10, six minutes after take off. A statement by the airline on Tuesday said that the General Manager of Ethiopian Airlines in Nigeria, Firihiewot…
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Ethiopian Airline expresses bid to take over Nigeria’s Arik Air
Ethiopian Airlines has submitted a formal offer to take charge of troubled carrier Arik Air, which accounts for more than half of Nigerian air passenger traffic. “We have outlined our terms and conditions to the Nigerian government and we are waiting to see if they agree,” Esayas WoldeMariam, Ethiopian’s managing director of international services, told…
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Ethiopian Airline airlifts 4,500 passengers from Kaduna Airport in 28 days
Ethiopian Airlines says it has airlifted over 4,500 passengers from Kaduna International Airport since it commenced flight operations from the airport on March 8. Mrs Firiehiwot Mekonnen, the airline’s Traffic and Sales Manager, told the newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja that it had so far operated 28 flights from the airport. “We have airlifted more…