Ethiopia

Ethiopian Airlines and TravoCure Healthcare, the medical travel division and a subsidiary of Akbar Group of Companies, have entered into a Medical Tourism Partnership in order to facilitate services for passengers travelling from Africa to India for medical reasons.

The renewed deal includes distribution on the Travelport platform and expands the ongoing travel retailing and distribution relationship between Travelport and Ethiopian Airlines.

According to the aviation news site Aviation Herald, two Ethiopian Airlines pilots fell asleep and missed their landing while flying from Sudan to Ethiopia last Monday. The passenger flight ET343, a Boeing 737-800, was flying from Khartoum to Addis Ababa when the pilots nodded off and flew past the runway, continuing their route. According to […]

The Civil Aviation Ministry in India said it has established a separate bilateral air bubble arrangement with Ethiopia for operation of special international passenger flights between both the countries

Online visa application and assistance processing firm official-esta.com has analysed the number of tourism jobs available in over 170 countries around the world to reveal how many jobs are created for every 100 tourists visiting.

UNIGLOBE Travel International Chairman’s Circle members have donated USD 17,000 raised at their annual awards gala to Plan International UK’s Safe Schools for Refugees in Ethiopia project. Plan International UK is the global charitable partner of UNIGLOBE Travel. Through events and team fundraising expeditions, its travel professionals worldwide have raised more USD 150,000 for Plan […]

Surfing the internet with seamless reliable connectivity has now become the new normal onboard Ethiopian Airlines flights, thanks to the onboard WiFi internet connectivity the airline has now introduced on its A350 fleet using the latest broadband satellite technology (Ka-band). With the state-of-the-art broadband satellite technology, passengers can rest assured that they will enjoy reliable […]

African aviation group Ethiopian Airlines has announced that it will start passenger flights to Bengaluru from 27 October this year. Commenting on the upcoming services, Tewolde GebreMariam, group CEO of Ethiopian Airlines remarked: “Ethiopian Airlines is a significant player in connecting India and Africa and beyond. The new four weekly flights will connect the important […]

An Ethiopian Airlines jet crashed six minutes after it took off from Addis Ababa leaving no survivors.

It is no surprise then that such a vital industry, is awash with announcements of new destinations, new planes, codeshares and sales. This week’s aviation round up, however begins with the end of an era…